The Complementation and Mutual Promotion of English Major Teaching and College English Teaching in Colleges and Universities

In the reform of college English teaching, it is very important to impose the connection between English major teaching and college English teaching. This paper anlyzes the current situation in English major teaching and college English teaching and explores the connection in many aspects such as teachers, teaching content, teaching material and curriculum design in order to develop English major teaching and college English teaching and get large efficiency in English eaching. In China universities and colleges English teaching covers teaching for English majors and college English. During the 20 years since the reform and opening up, English teaching in universities and colleges has got remarkable achievements: an increasing number of qulified teachers, steadily improved quality of teaching materials, new educational philosophy gradually reflected in the compiling of new textbooks and the greatly improved quality of teaching. The ability of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation has been significantly enhanced for students of English majors and non-English majors. With the speed up of Global Economic Integration, worldwide exchanges and cooperation are increasing. The same is true of China being a member of WTO. Chinese people have more frequent contacts with the outside world. Talents of foreign-language majors alone can not meet the rapidly changing needs at home and abroad. Therefore, the situation of meeting the needs of social development and international exchanges sets higher requirements for the college English teaching and non-English major college students' English proficiency. Thus, it is particularly important to strengthen the complementation and inter-promotion between the teaching of English majors and college English.