An Overview of Studies on Moral Education in Foreign Language Courses

Abstract

Foreign language courses with moral education elements have been widely studied recently. This paper overviews studies on Foreign language courses with moral education elements in the articles from Chinese journals of CNKI database in the past five years by means of visual analysis software. It summarizes the research focus of published papers, reviews the meaning, the scope, exploration and evaluation of moral education elements, and then explains the future implications. It has been found that in the past five years, the moral education research of foreign language courses has continued to rise; and the research hotspots mainly focus on curriculum design, college teaching reform and moral education elements extraction.