An Exploratory Practice of "Integrated" Teaching for Military English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202515643

Author(s)

Yinan Hu, Xiaohua Li, Xia Jiang

Affiliation(s)

Foreign Language Teaching and Research Section, Air Force Early Warning Academy, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Abstract

Military academies have long faced the problem of disconnection between general English foundation and the professional application of military posts. To address this challenge, this study explores an integrated teaching path in practice: in the general English teaching stage, military-related corpora and terminology are systematically integrated to construct students' preliminary cognition; in the military English teaching stage, the focus is on the integration of simulated tasks and scenarios to promote the transformation of linguistic knowledge into professional application capabilities. Practice shows that this path effectively facilitates the connection of English learning and capability transfer. Students in the pilot class achieved synchronous improvement in both general and military English scores. A prominent achievement is that a team composed of students from the pilot class won the Special Prize on behalf of the academy in the 2025 PLA Military English Practice Competition. This initially confirms the effectiveness and potential of integrated teaching in cultivating students' high-level linguistic application capabilities.

Keywords

Military English; Integrated Teaching; General English; Teaching Practice

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