Construction and Application of An Interdisciplinary Team Teaching Model for Foreign-Related Nursing English in Higher Vocational Colleges from the Perspective of Ecolinguistics

Abstract

Under the background of globalization, there are severe challenges in the cultivation of the professional skills of nursing staff, especially the English skills of foreign-related nursing, which has become an important part of the training of nursing talents. At present, most English teaching of foreign-related nursing in higher vocational colleges follows the traditional grammar teaching model. However, as most of the teaching staff for medical English are English teachers who have limited nursing professional knowledge, the industry characteristics of medical English are not fully demonstrated in the teaching process, and the lack of practicality inevitably reduces the quality of medical English teaching. Therefore, the traditional nursing English teaching model in higher vocational colleges can no longer meet the actual teaching needs. There is an urgent need to implement an interdisciplinary team teaching model that completely fits the industry environment of foreign-related nursing English and apply it flexibly to improve the quality of foreign-related nursing English teaching in higher vocational colleges, and lay a solid foundation for professional practice of nursing staff. Based on the perspective of ecolinguistics, this article explores the application strategies of the interdisciplinary team teaching model for foreign-related nursing English in higher vocational colleges, with the view to provide guidelines for the actual teaching of foreign-related nursing English.