Innovation and Practice for Specialized English Teaching of Brewing Engineering Based on Virtual Simulation Technology

Abstract

With the global development of China's brewing engineering industry, the demand for cultivating professional and compound talents with international competitiveness is increasing. Teaching English for brewing engineering can support the development of international compound talents with excellent comprehensive professional quality and systematic knowledge structure. However, professional English teaching still faces the dilemma of a lack of systematic environmental training, and knowledge points are plenty and complicated. Especially the Jiang-flavor Baijiu with unique Chinese characteristics involves a traditional complex brewing process. The conventional teaching model is challenging to meet the needs of comprehensive and systematic rofessional English training and application. While the virtual simulation technology of brewing engineering can provide a virtual system training platform for professional English teaching. Therefore, three virtual simulation experimental projects of sauce-flavored baijiu brewing technology, small beer production and fermentation technology, and wine production technology have been introduced during professional English teaching. Students conduct systematic training from the perspective of professional English in a virtual simulation environment and strengthen the comprehensive use of professional English in the offline production practice session. This teaching method helped students to effectively consolidate and apply the specialized English knowledge of brewing engineering for comprehensive large-scale training, which can be used for continuous exploration by similar majors or colleges and further promotion and improvement.

Keywords

• virtual simulation
• brewing engineering
• professional english
• teaching mode reform