In recent weeks, the Center for Language Education (CLE) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) took its “English III” course to Beijing to be assessed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP), under its “Teaching Academic English with the TOEFL iBT® Test (TAE).” Lecturer Liu Lisha was selected as a keynote speaker at the seminar in Beijing, as English III stood out as the optimal training content for offline training.

Liu Lisha shared her experience of developing the “English III” curriculum, incorporating critical components like demand analysis, curriculum objectives, teaching modes, materials, activities and evaluation methods. She also went on to explain the localization scheme of learning English Teaching in China combined with TOEFL.

TAE is a new hybrid teacher training program designed by ETS for Chinese foreign language teachers. It seeks to help teachers and students understand excellent cases, learn effective and feasible teaching principles, task design and teaching methods.

The range of undergraduate English courses run by CLE at SUSTech is compulsory, and years of exploration and development have seen them mature into high-quality programs. English I, II and III provide different levels of English for different students, with English III closely integrated with the TOEFL iBT® Test.

CLE has been recognized by ETS and other official TOEFL test centers, which reflects the systematic, professional and international development of the English language curriculum throughout SUSTech.