Technological Rationality and Educational Authenticity: Dilemmas and Optimized Pathways for College English Classroom Teaching in the Big Data Era

This paper employs literature review and survey methods to investigate the employment status of music graduates from the Guangdong Zhaoqing University School of Music over the past three years. It focuses on exploring the actual working conditions of graduates upon entering their units, the application and effectiveness of their knowledge and skills in practice, as well as the knowledge framework and needs they possess after 3-5 years of work. The study reveals that society and employers have new requirements and directions for talent each year. Coupled with the uneven distribution of faculty resources and examination systems across regions, these demands compel graduates to continuously acquire new knowledge and restructure their knowledge frameworks. In contrast, the curriculum design, teaching models, and implementation of teaching content during university years highlight a disconnect between higher education institutions' training and local practical needs. Most graduates also feel a gap between their knowledge and skills and classroom instruction. Through comparative analysis of the survey data, effective data are genuinely summarized and integrated. This analysis reflects on whether the training model, objectives, standards, curriculum design, and discipline construction of the musicology program at Zhaoqing University School of Music are reasonable and well-established. This will directly promote the reform and development of the musicology program at the school. Additionally, it has significant practical reference value, academic value, and social value in supporting the teaching reform of "new normal" education.