本课程是为本科英语专业学生开设的学科基础教育必修课程，是本科院校英语专业基础阶段的一门主干课程，也是在学生完成一年级的基础英语、语音、听力、口语、写作等课程的基础上开设的。本课程强调语言知识和实践技能的结合运用，突出学生的语言和思维产出，要求学生能够综合运用语言能力、交际能力、思辨能力和应变能力进行演讲和辩论。该课程紧跟国家现代教育信息化改革步伐，响应当前“新使命、大格局、新文科、大外语”的时代背景，采用线上线下混合式教学手段，兼收并蓄多种教学方法，对各章节的教学内容进行灵活多样的设计。线上教学平台选用超星学习通，线下教学在普通多媒体教室进行。本教材将学习与演讲能力的训练相结合，通过理解当代中国传播中国声音两个主要板块和演讲策略的讲解与演练，从分项输入到融合输出，达成理解中国、讲述中国的教学目标。

“Understanding Contemporary China—A PublicSpeaking Course” is an important part of the “Understanding Contemporary China”course series. This course is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism withChinese Characteristics for a New Era. By taking this course, students willacquire knowledge and skills while cultivating their integrity and wisdom. Besides,students will understand and practice the core values of Chinese socialism, andlearn to integrate personal fulfillment with social and national development.The course is designed to further improve students’ six key competences:English language competence, research competence, critical thinking competence,communication competence, collaboration competence and creativity competence.The aim of this course is to help student become a confident speaker, a bettercritical thinker, and a good public communicator through public speaking,debate, discussion, argumentation, evaluation and reflection. The class modulesinclude lead-in, reading and listening, listening material analysis, telling China’s story tothe world, language in focus, further reading and listening. The course willenhance their multiple abilities such as cross-cultural ability, self-learningability and cooperative ability, so they can achieve all-round development. Thecourse sticks to students-oriented teaching with the teacher as a guide, and employa situational teaching approach to encourage cooperative leaning, inquiry-basedlearning and blended-learning. It has designed teaching procedures includingpre-class listening and researches, in-class guidance and discussions, andafter-class preparation and speech presentation to strengthen the interactionsbetween students and teachers as well as among students, and to improvestudents’ individualized learning effects and flexibility. Checks on theattendance of this course are weekly. The teacher will attach great importanceto the frequency and quality of students’ participation in class discussions.Students are expected to do much research before and after class, make preparationsand find evidence for their arguments and speak up in class. There are 2-3 publicspeeches for each student in the semester.

1.推荐教材

   金利民主编，“理解当代中国”多语种系列课程之《英语演讲教程》，北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2022.8

2.参考文献 

[1]习近平：《习近平谈治国理政》第一卷，外文出版社，2018 年第2 版，ISBN：9787119113920。

   [2]习近平：《习近平谈治国理政》第二卷，外文出版社，2017 年，ISBN：9787119111612。

   [3]习近平：《习近平谈治国理政》第三卷，外文出版社，2020 年，ISBN：9787119124094。

   [4]习近平：《习近平谈治国理政》第四卷，外文出版社，2022 年，ISBN：9787119130927。

  [5] 《习近平总书记教育重要论述讲义》英文版，外语教学与研究出版社，2022年10月。

  [6] Stephen E.Lucas，《演讲的艺术》英文版（第13版），北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2021.3.

  [7] 斯蒂文E.卢卡斯，《演讲的艺术》中文版（第10版），北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2014.1.

3.课程资源

[1]网易公开课TED演讲，https://open.163.com/ted/

[2]“外研社”国才杯 大赛往届回顾，http://uchallenge.unipus.cn/2018/history/

  [3] 2018国际华语辩论赛自频道，http://i.youku.com/u/UMTc3MjI4MTIxNg

通过本课程的理论和实践教学，实现下列目标： 

1. 【知识目标】学生能够了解英语公共演讲的基本定义、演讲的类型、演讲的目的、演讲的特征以及演讲的构成；能够夯实自己的英语口语表达基本功，向着流畅口语表达与英语思维的目标进步；重点掌握时政话语特别是中国特色时政演讲语篇的特点与规律;

2. 【能力目标】学生能够通过对经典演讲佳作和时政演讲材料的赏析，培养自己对各种演讲文体的鉴赏能力，提高思辨演说能力、跨文化交际能力和国际传播能力，从而成为有家国情怀、有全球视野、有专业本领的社会主义建设者和接班人;

3. 【思维素养目标】学生能够具有反思意识和批判性思维素养，能够掌握基本的反思方法和批判性思维方式，能够对所学知识进行合理及科学的反思，并且能够对各类演讲文体尤其是时政演讲中的观点进行批判性思考;

4. 【价值目标】学生能够形成正确的价值观念，具有积极的人生态度和高尚情操，能够加深对中国理论和中国实践的理解和认识，培养自己向国际社会讲好中国故事的能力，推动中国更好走向世界，世界更好了解中国。