Keywords
Higher vocational English teachers
International competence
Submitted : 2025-04-30
Accepted : 2025-05-15
Published : 2025-05-30
Abstract
In the context of globalization, higher vocational English teachers play a vanguard role in the internationalization process of vocational education, contributing a unique perspective to foreign exchanges and cooperation and laying a solid foundation for accelerating the internationalization process of schools and promoting high-quality development. Inspired by the educational internationalization practice of the EU’s “Erasmus+” Programme, higher vocational English teachers can improve their international competence through ways such as enhancing international awareness, optimizing the international curriculum system, strengthening international cooperation and academic research capabilities, cultivating the awareness and ability of lifelong learning, improving teaching innovation capabilities, enhancing cross-cultural communication capabilities, and boosting national cultural confidence, injecting new vitality and inexhaustible impetus into the international transformation and development of China’s vocational education.
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