Study Methods
Study Methods

      Adopting heuristic, discussion-based, combination of Chinese and English and interactive teaching method, and cooperating with a variety of teaching methods such as CAI multi-media audio-visual teaching, video teaching, typical example analysis of application system, can make the traditional blackboard teaching and modern multimedia education means coordinated. Teaching method is one of the important approaches for universities to achieve training goals and is one of the specific measures to complete the training process. It is also an important mean to improve teaching qualities. Teaching method is closely related to training goals. In the knowledge economy times, cultivating qualified, composite and innovative talents is the guideline of education. More attention should be paid to the cultivation of multi-dimensional thinking ability and harmonious development of students' knowledge, ability and overall while teaching the knowledge.

 

      The bilingual classroom teaching in Chinese and English is the main form of course teaching. Heuristic and interactive teaching methods will be adopted. The key of heuristic teaching lies in inspiring students thinking and training their skills to think in English. Traditional education, which is indoctrinated and conclusive, should be transferred into the heuristic and procedural education to raises students’ thinking, especially the creative thinking. Interactive teaching requires teachers to teach the computer language in English and offers students a computer and Delphi system development platform. Students can operate according to the instructions to complete the corresponding requirements at the same time of teacher’s teaching. In this way, students and teachers become truly interactive and achieve good results that students can be independent to solve problems, to explore new knowledge and the agility, flexibility and innovation of students' thinking are improved. The teacher should guide the students to learning actively and create for them a new English-thinking environment and way.

 

      In order to motivate students' learning enthusiasm, promote their positive thinking and inspire their potential, some chapters will be taught in English and all chapters adopt multimedia technology teaching methods. The application of modern education technology and methods, not only depend students' understanding of abstract theory, but also make the course vivid and easy for students to understand and stimulate the learning interest in this course.

 

      In order to help the further understanding, expansion of knowledge and learning about the development frontier of subject, some corresponding reference materials in both English and Chinese are specified for students by the textbook, some questions are listed out for students to read and think.

 

      More attention is paid to the cultivation of innovative thinking and innovative ability, combining the research program of teachers with graduation thesis can inspire students' thinking, train their thinking skills and cultivate the students' independent thinking consciousness, especially the innovative thinking. Furthermore, a lot of abilities of students are improved, such as individual problem-solving, exploring new knowledge and thinking agility, flexibility and innovation. The graduation design of a undergraduate guided by the applicant, which involved in the research and development project" development of computer application system" won the "The Third Prize of Shaanxi province Technology Progress", made a scientific and technological innovation achievement.

 

The main teaching means and methods features of the course are as follows:

(1) Adopting the inspiration, interactive teaching mode that combines the multimedia teaching, bilingual teaching with the practice teaching.

(2) Teaching the important, difficult and strong theoretical knowledge with the method of classroom discussion to promote the cultivation of the students' innovative thinking and ability.

(3) Great importance is attached to the interactive teaching with the development example of computer application system.

(4) The method combined traditional blackboard writing with modern multimedia teaching is used in special section. The modern multimedia teaching makes the dull knowledge vivid, visual and easy to understand.

(5) Bilingual teaching. The teaching manners that combining of Chinese and English and some chapters all in English, adopts by responsible teacher professor Sun Zhaoyun, is very popular with the students.