Scientific Development Research

Integrated English course, a foundational course offered for English majors, aims not only to develop students’ language competence but also to foster their moral character. Integrating farming-related education—an educational philosophy that embodies traditional farming culture coupled with a modern practical spirit—into this course serves as an important pathway to achieving moral education in curricula, interdisciplinary integration, and fostering well-rounded development in agricultural universities. This paper explores, with practical examples, a “5+5” integration approach in the Integrated English course. Specifically, it examines the integration of farming-related education through five dimensions—teaching content, teaching models, teaching methods, teaching tools, and teaching evaluation—and the cultivation of five key language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. The aim is to address practical issues such as the insufficiency and lack of systematization in farming-related education within the core Integrated English course for English majors in agricultural universities, thereby enhancing the teaching quality of this course.

Farming-related education; Integrated English course; Integrating approach study