International Journal of Education

Under the current background of fully implementing the fundamental task of “fostering virtue through education,” a key challenge in teaching reform is how to effectively and naturally integrate ideological and political education into the cultivation of language proficiency in college English courses, which emphasize both instrumental and humanistic aspects. In response to issues such as insufficient integration of educational elements, students’ weak ability to “use English to do things,” and a monolithic evaluation approach, this study constructs an integrated teaching model of “ideological and political education+Production-Oriented Approach (POA).” Taking the “Dietary Culture” unit of New Generation College English as an example, the study follows the “Motivating-Enabling-Assessing” teaching process and, based on platforms such as U Campus and Chaoxing App, designs driving output tasks such as “A Guide to Chinese Dietary Culture for International Students,” thereby organically integrating value shaping into all stages of language teaching. Preliminary practice shows that this model can effectively stimulate students’ sense of learning responsibility, simultaneously enhancing their language application skills, cross-cultural awareness, and ideological-political cognition. However, challenges remain in conducting refined assessment of the ideological and political effects in large-class teaching. This study provides an operable pathway for deepening the development of ideological and political education in college English and promoting the application of foreign language teaching theories with Chinese characteristics.

Ideological and political education; Production-Oriented Approach (POA); College English teaching; Cultural confidence