The Application of Stuart Hall’s Encoding-Decoding Model of Communication in Bilingual/Foreign Language Professional Course Teaching

Abstract

The significance of bilingual/foreign language professional course teaching in the educational modernization process has been reiterated by the central government of China. In practice however, bilingual/foreign language courses are found to be more difficult to teach and to receive satisfactory results than their Chinese parallel courses. The paper adopts Stuart Hall's encoding-decoding model of communication to explain that additional linguistic encoding-decoding step makes bilingual/foreign language professional courses more difficult. The paper accordingly suggests that classroom communication helps to eliminate misunderstanding between teachers and students, so as to improve the teaching effectiveness of the bilingual/foreign language professional course.