A Study on the Development of College English Teachers’ Technological Psychological Capital and Educational Technology Learning Practical Strategies

Abstract

Technological psychological capital is the psychological capital that plays a key role in technological learning and plays a key role in individual technological mastery. In this paper, a qualitative case study has been conducted to describe the process and strategy of College English teachers’ educational technology learning, in order to explore the connotation and interactive relationship of their educational technology learning practice and strategy, and to clarify the specific evolution and construction mode of teachers’ individual technological psychological capital. The research finds that teachers have different learning strategies for their educational technology learning because of different personal backgrounds and specific situations, which makes teachers present different practical characteristics in the process of educational technology learning. College English teachers improve their technological psychological capital from the aspects of technical efficiency, technical hope, technical optimism and technical resilience through the practical strategies of technology request, technology use, technology understanding and technology transfer. Teachers’ own teaching-learning-research background, technical background, teaching-research environment, technical environment, and the technical learning support they can obtain are the main factors influencing the development of their technological psychological capital and the practical strategy of teachers’ technology learning. The research suggests that we should: 1) construct a transdisciplinary teacher education under the guidance of technology value; 2) construct the situation of using and requesting educational technology with education as the main position; 3) construct an ecological view of teaching and scientific research integrating education and technology to promote teacher’s technology education. This study explains the evolution and construction process of College English teachers’ educational technology learning and technological psychological capital, provides a new perspective and empirical data reference for teachers’ technology learning and teachers’ technology education.