Home⇛Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Sustainable Development⇛vol. 13 no. 1, Part 4 (2025)

Innovative Strategies and Student Engagement of One Normal University in China

Dong Yufeng

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This paper explored the innovative strategies of Chinese language teachers and student engagement at Xinzhou Normal University from a global to a local perspective. By analyzing the latest trend of global Chinese language teaching and the actual needs of students, this paper explored how Chinese teachers, in the context of globalization, combine local realities and innovate teaching strategies to improve students' engagement. It provides useful reference for the integration of globalization and localization of Chinese teaching. At the same time, this paper also provides new ideas and enlightenment for practitioners and researchers in the field of Chinese language teaching. This paper first analyzes the problems existing in Chinese language teaching and then expounds in detail the concrete implementation methods of various innovative teaching strategies through empirical research to verify the role of these strategies on student engagement and learning effects. Specifically, it described the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of sex, grade level, and major; determined the innovative teaching strategies in terms of teaching content, teaching methods, teaching evaluation, and integrative dimensions; assessed the students’ engagement in terms of behavioral engagement, cognitive engagement, and emotional engagement; tested the significant difference on innovative teaching strategies and students’ engagement when grouped according to demographic profile; tested the significant relationship across the two major variables; and proposed an education leadership plan for Higher Educational Institutions. The study which used a questionnaire survey yielded that innovative teaching strategies can effectively enhance students' engagement, thus promoting students' learning effect and all-round development. Finally, the paper gives some suggestions and prospects for the future development of innovative Chinese language teaching strategies.



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