In response to the development goal of establishing a new type of high-level business university and promoting the construction of the Business English discipline, Business English Teaching and Research Office of Department of Foreign Languages (School of International Education) held a discipline construction meeting on October 18. Professor Long Yun, an external consultant of Guizhou University of Commerce and former dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Guizhou Medical University, explained the requirements and specific content for building premium courses to the teachers in Business English Teaching and Research Office. A construction plan for a blended mode of online and offline Business English premium courses was developed, which involved various tasks such as organizing existing course resources, constructing a question bank, compiling teaching materials, optimizing lesson plans, improving the use of Business English platforms, systematizing the integration of ideological and political education into the curriculum, and designing teaching cases. The meeting was chaired by Professor Zhang Xiaohua, the director of Business English Teaching and Research Office.
Through this meeting, the teachers in Business English Teaching and Research Office gained a clearer understanding of the construction of premium courses, enabling them to grasp the basic strategies and methods accurately. It guided the teachers to continuously summarize and refine their teaching practices in front-line teaching, innovate teaching methods, and make continuous efforts to create distinctive Business English premium courses with the characteristics of Guizhou University of Commerce.
Source: Department of Foreign Languages (School of International Education)
（Translated and Proofread by Zhang Xiaohua）
