¹Weiwei Zhang,²Hao-Zhang Xiao,³Hongbo Li

^1,2,3School of Foreign Studies, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China

²Institute of Ecolinguistics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China

Taking “ecological civilization” education as an example, this paper explores an effective model of curriculum-embedded ideological and political education of foreign language majors in Chinese colleges and universities based on the concept of ecological interactive context and ecolinguistic continuum. This paper comprehensively discusses the effectiveness of core values content processing methods for foreign language courses in different contexts from three aspects: “the synergy between ecological civilization education and ecological values”, “the synergy between ecological civilization education and ecological behavior”, and “the synergy between teacher niche and student niche”. Considering the current problems of the curriculum-embedded ideological and political education such as the formalization and the disciplinization of the course content, the influence of explicit and implicit processing of foreign language majors on core values education is investigated to provide a basis for the formulation of relevant policies and theoretical research in colleges and universities.

ecological interactive context; curriculum-embedded ideological and political education; foreign language teaching; synergy; explicit/implicit learning

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