Author(s)

Jianghua Wu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Foreign Language Teaching Department, Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Haikou, 571125, China

Corresponding Author

Jianghua Wu

ABSTRACT

The Hainan Free Trade Port has created new demands for vocational undergraduate students' English speaking competence, particularly in workplace communication, intercultural interaction, and service-oriented tasks. Yet traditional College English speaking instruction remains constrained by limited authentic contexts, insufficient personalized feedback, and weak continuity between in-class and out-of-class learning. To address these challenges, this paper explores the pedagogical potential of portable large language models in vocational undergraduate English speaking instruction. It proposes an innovative model centered on job-based scenarios, task-chain learning, human-AI collaborative feedback, and data-informed assessment. The paper argues that portable large language models can enhance practice frequency, feedback efficiency, and occupational relevance, thereby supporting the transformation of College English speaking instruction from knowledge delivery to competence-oriented, scenario-based learning.

KEYWORDS

Portable large language models; College English speaking instruction; Vocational undergraduate education; Hainan Free Trade Port; Instructional innovation

CITE THIS PAPER

Jianghua Wu. Instructional Innovation in Vocational Undergraduate College English Speaking Driven by Portable Large Language Models in the Context of the Hainan Free Trade Port. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2026). Vol. 9, No.2, 63-68. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2026.090208.

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