International Journal of Education

This paper explores the problems and the corresponding causes in the integration of English writing causes and curriculum ideology and politics in colleges and universities. English writing courses have close connections with English language and cultures, so the integration of curriculum ideology and politics with such courses are especially urgent and important. However, various practices have shown that problems that are relatively hard to solve exist in the process of the integration. On one hand, the teaching mode of English writing, to some extent, limits the effectiveness of ideological and political education. On the other hand, a systematic process evaluation is unavailable concerning the teaching of ideology and politics. Meanwhile, English writing courses and ideology and politics teaching also show differences in their objectives. Theses problems bring about obstacles to the integration, which is neither favorable to teaching activities, nor ideal to ideological and political education. The main causes lie in the lacks of teachers’ ability to teach ideology and politics, appropriate ideological and political elements and the support of well-developed mechanism. These findings would provide some reference for the successful integration of English writing courses and curriculum ideology and politics.

College English writing courses; Curriculum ideology and politics; Problems; Causes