Abstract
The
recent decade has seen a big development of language teaching especially
English language teaching for non-English majors in China with its rapid
internationalization of many fields. A university graduate equipped with global
competence is a valuable talent who are in great need by the country and it is
the institutions of higher learning that take the major responsibility for
their cultivation. This paper firstly identifies the current language teaching
problems in Chinese universities, and then explains global competence by
clarifying each of its components according to both Tsinghua University and OECD’s framework. The latter half of the paper
is devoted to the suggestions for constructing a global-competence-oriented college foreign language
teaching system from the aspects of the course groups, teaching model, and
evaluation mode.
