A Study on Strategies for Postgraduates of Foreign Language Majors and Non-Foreign Language Majors from the Concept of Outcome-Based Education

Chinese universities are reforming English education for postgraduates. The limitation of the reform, however, is that it only focuses on “non-English majors”. Foreign-language universities are comparatively different from other universities in the field of College English teaching and research. Postgraduate students in foreign-language universities include Foreign Language majors who take English as a second foreign language and Non-Foreign Language majors. Without considering their respective academic background, teachers may fail to achieve the expected teaching effects. This article will adopt an outcome-based education perspective to analyze the differences in the academic conditions of the two types of students, explore effective English teaching strategies for postgraduates of foreign language majors and non-foreign language ones, and summarize practical viewpoints of classified teaching.