关键词: SIOP模式; 课程设计; 商务英语; 专门用途英语; 教学模式

Abstract: Based on SIOP (The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) Model instruction theory from the United States of America, this study harnesses its instruction features in combining language contents with subject knowledge, and applies it to the curriculum design of Business English, a course for non-English-major college students, in order to explore a new teaching mode for the course. SIOP Model is theoretically supported by Stephen D. Krashen’s Hypothesis of Comprehensible Input and Lev Vygotsky’s Socio-cultural Theory, featuring non-threatening environment, comprehensible input and comprehensive assessment. The researchers have conducted a balanced hierarchy experiment on 60 business English learners from experimental class and control class respectively with different teaching methods (the SIOP instruction mode and the usual instruction mode). They tested and surveyed the two classes at the beginning of the term and end of the term to collect raw data. After horizontal and vertical comparative study of the data in quantitative analysis, and the study of the recording and the manuscript of group interview in experimental class in qualitative analysis, a conclusion is reached that Business English course design and classroom application based on SIOP Model helps students to lower their English classroom anxiety, to improve their English language skills, as well as their business subject knowledge. Therefore, business English curriculum design and classroom application based on SIOP model is proved to be a new successful attempt for the current curriculum design of ESP English, and provides a fresh line of thinking for the expansion and development of foreign language teaching reform.

Keywords: SIOP Model; curriculum design; Business English; ESP; teaching mode