ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/er.2025.10.008
“Insight into the Problem”: Research on Restructuring the Educational Internship Course for English Majors in the Digital Intelligence Era
Ying Guo*, Yongkun Zhou, Weidong Zhang
Tangshan Normal University, Tangshan 063000, Hebei, China.
*Corresponding author: Ying Guo
Project supported by the 2025 University-level Educational Teaching Reform Research Project of Tangshan Normal University: Construction and Empirical Research on the “Three Educational Practices” Evaluation System for Pre-service English Teachers Empowered by Artificial Intelligence (Project No. PX-24252162).
Published: November 20,2025
Abstract
The educational internship course is a core component of the training system for English majors, playing an irreplaceable role in improving the overall quality of the English teacher workforce. In the digital and intelligent era, characterized by the rapid development of digital and intelligent technologies, the educational internship course for English majors not only has innovative opportunities empowered by technology but also faces the urgent need for the reconstruction and upgrading of the course elements. This study takes the educational internship course for English majors in a provincial local undergraduate normal university as the research object. By adopting the research methodology of course syllabus text analysis, it accurately identifies the problems existing in the educational internship course. Moreover, it redefines the objectives of the educational internship course for English majors in the digital and intelligent era as cultivating students’ knowledge and literacy in foreign language education, social and cultural knowledge and literacy, as well as thinking and cognitive knowledge and literacy. On this basis, it constructs smart courses, iterates the course content, broadens the evaluation dimensions, and creates a new paradigm for the pre-service training of English teachers in the digital and intelligent era.
Keywords
Digital Intelligence Era; English Majors; Educational Internship; Curriculum Restructuring
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How to cite this paper
“Insight into the Problem”: Research on Restructuring the Educational Internship Course for English Majors in the Digital Intelligence Era
How to cite this paper: Ying Guo, Yongkun Zhou, Weidong Zhang. (2025). “Insight into the Problem”: Research on Restructuring the Educational Internship Course for English Majors in the Digital Intelligence Era. The Educational Review, USA, 9(10), 872-877.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/er.2025.10.008