Introducing PBL and Its Impact on the Development of English Higher Education in China

Abstract

There are great differences between PBL model and traditional teaching model in terms of teaching design concept, implementation method and teaching performance evaluation in Chinese higher education. The author provides an overview of PBL's evolution, design idea, implementation strategy, benefits over the conventional model, current state of use, and future prospects in Chinese and English higher education. The "project-based learning" (PBL) refers to a teaching strategy that separates the material to be instructed into diverse communities based on the physical and mental traits of the students and splits the subject matter into multiple tasks in order to keep the teaching prerequisites as well as to fulfill the real the society's needs for schoolchildren. The generated projects are used as the basis for teaching, which allows the students to participate fully in the project's learning process. The advantages of this approach are: In an integrated learning environment, students build their own expertise and comprehension in a way that is long-lasting and reliable, they learn how to communicate through problem-solving and construct their their own expertise and comprehension in a coordinated manner.