Reform and Effectiveness Analysis of an Industry-Oriented Business Russian Curriculum System
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This study examines the reform and effectiveness of an industry-oriented Business Russian curriculum designed to address the persistent disconnect between classroom instruction and authentic business contexts. A 16-week teaching experiment was conducted with 96 Business Russian majors divided equally into an experimental group and a traditional teaching group. The reformed curriculum reconstructed course objectives around business task completion, reorganized teaching content into industry-based modules, introduced authentic and adapted materials from cross-border e-commerce, international logistics, contract operations, financial settlement, and after-sales service, and integrated progressive classroom tasks, teacher feedback, peer review, revision, and comprehensive performance assessment. Course effectiveness was evaluated through terminology recognition, business writing, information extraction, translation revision, oral interaction, and overall achievement. The experimental group obtained an average comprehensive score of 83.9, compared with 74.2 in the traditional teaching group. It also achieved 84.6% in industry terminology recognition, 86.2 points in business writing, 87.4% in text information extraction, and a 79.8% success rate in oral interaction tasks. These findings indicate that an industry-oriented curriculum can strengthen students’ ability to process Business Russian texts, apply specialized terminology, revise written output, and complete communicative tasks in realistic business situations.
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