Impact Analysis of The Current English Curriculum for English Majors at The Elementary Stage

Besides the tremendous changes that happened to English education during the latest decade,socialist market economy has also made new requests for the cultivated pattern of English majors in our country.Commissioned by Ministry of Education,English branch of College Foreign Languages Teaching Instructed Committee drafted and handed in new curriculum in 1999,which has been implemented since the year of 2000.Even though the new curriculum has been implemented for several years already,there are still some people who have different opinions towards it.This research takes English majors from the second year and the fourth year as the informants,and investigates the impressions,opinions and impacts of the new curriculum in students’ mind.And then qualitatively analyzes the collected data.Based on both positive and negative impacts analysis of the new curriculum on English majors at the elementary stage,this paper also brings forward some suggestions,which may help the improvement of current curriculum.