Yang Decai’s personal experience

Joined the New Democratic Youth League in 1949. In 1950, when he was in high school, he attended the Military and Political University of the East China Military Region. After completing the preparatory course, he transferred to the Foreign Languages ??School of the Sanye Political Department of the East China Military Region to study Russian. In March 1952, he transferred to the Foreign Languages ??School of East China University in Shanghai to continue his studies. In 1953, the school was renamed Shanghai Russian School (now the predecessor of Shanghai International Studies University ), graduated from Shanghai Russian College in the summer and was assigned to the Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (now Central South University) as a Russian teaching assistant. He worked diligently and bravely shouldered heavy responsibilities. There were few Russian teachers at that time, and sometimes he had to take 23 classes a week. He worked tirelessly in his studies. He originally studied translation, but now he is engaged in teaching. He relied on self-study for phonetics and grammar. In 1958, he was sent to reeducation through labor for 3 years and 7 months due to rightist issues. At the end of 1961, he returned to the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and worked as a librarian in the library. Before the Cultural Revolution, he joined a work team to engage in social education in western Hunan. During the Cultural Revolution, he entered the May 7th Cadre School and worked in agricultural farms and as a welder in factories. Taking advantage of the advantageous conditions of the library, he taught himself English, and in 1972 taught English to young and middle-aged teachers in the college. At the end of 1973, he was transferred to the Nanjing Maritime School to take care of his wife's relationship. He first worked in infrastructure construction. In 1978, he became an English teacher and the leader of the foreign language teaching and research group, and participated in the Esperanto correspondence course at Kunming University of Social Sciences. Actively prepared for the Provincial and Municipal Foreign Language Teaching and Research Association of Technical Secondary Schools, and served as the chairman of the Provincial and Municipal Foreign Language Teaching and Research Association of Technical Secondary Schools and the Chairman of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Association of the Municipal Technical Secondary School Association. He often communicated with colleagues from other places. Academic point of view: The main purpose of learning foreign languages ??is to use them, and foreign languages ????should be cultivated into students' habits; student endorsements are encouraged in teaching, question-and-answer formats are used in class, and cumulative scoring is used for student assessment. The classroom atmosphere is lively, and teachers and students participate together. Give full play to students' initiative spirit. He retired in January 1994, resigned from his current and other positions, and was once employed to teach English at Jiangsu Self-Study University. Since 1987, he has been employed by Shanghai Pujiang Navigation Safety Technical Service Department and Shanghai Second Maritime Law Firm as a special consultant and maritime consultant. He has written 20 foreign language teaching papers. Among them: "The Purpose and Requirements of English Teaching in Technical Secondary Schools" (published in "Foreign Language Circle", 1990, Issue 4), "Should Public English be Combined with Majors" (published in "Transportation Technical Secondary Education", 1985, Issue 6), "Introduction to English Textbooks for Guangdong Technical Secondary Schools" (published in "Guangdong Technical Secondary Schools", Issue 9, 1989), "Foreign language teaching in technical secondary schools must highlight the characteristics of technical secondary schools" (published in "Changhang Education" in 1988 , Issue 1).