During the last seven years or so, China has adopted
an open-door policy, which has brought about an increase
in diplomatic intercourse, and cultural and technical
exchanges between China and other countries. And, above all,
the number of tourists coming to visit China has been
growing rapidly year by year. Together with this increase
comes the demand for tour guides, especially Englishspeaking
tour guides.
Since most Chinese tour guides who are presently
working in the travel service have not been able to receive
professional training, they encounter difficulties of
various kinds in their work. Such a situation demonstrates
an urgent need for designing a special curriculum for
training Chinese tour guides.
Problems with the current situation are analysed in
detail in Chapter 2. The analysis reveals that there are
problems with the existing arrangement for recruiting tour
guides and also tour guides' weakness in oral communication
with tourists which is a result of inadequate training.
In order to have an objective picture of Chinese tour
guides' oral English � both strengths and weaknesses � a
questionnaire was designed, and interviews were conducted
as part of the field study. The whole of Chapter 3 is
devoted to the analyses of the questionnaire and interviews,
which includes the designing and distribution of the
questionnaire and the data analysis.
Chapter 4 focuses on the discussion of the importance
of aims and objectives in the curriculum. It offers
guidelines for the other elements of the curriculum which
are stated in relation to students' future needs.
Students are expected to achieve the goals set for
them in the course through studying the course materials.
Therefore, teaching materials have to be selected in order
to be able to serve the basic aims and objectives of the
course. Considerations need to be given to both language
and content. Details of how to choose course content are
dealt with in Chapter 5.
The final chapter gives suggestions for teaching
and evaluation.
This field study report is not intended to present a
proper curriculum. Instead, it is hoped to suggest some
aspects worthy of consideration when the training in oral
English for tour guides is being planned.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219490 |
| Date | January 1984 |
| Creators | Yong-ming, Gao, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Liberal Studies |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Gao Yong-ming |
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