Abstract
This paper uses Edgar Dale’s Audio-visual Learning Theory and Jean Piaget’s Constructionist Learning Theory as the theoretical framework to conduct two control experimental tests and a questionnaire research to investigate students’ impression and expectations toward Wechat public account based mobile learning mode as well as its validity, advantages and shortcomings. The findings of the research are as follows: (1) students who use the WeChat public account based mobile learning mode can perform better in acquiring knowledge and passing examinations than non-users; (2) students’ mobile learning habits find a good basis for their acceptance of the new WeChat learning mode; (3) most students respond to the new WeChat learning mode with a positive attitude, and universities can introduce this mode into the course design; (4) this new WeChat learning mode helps students learn literature in the aspects of interest stimulation, ability improvement and literature content learning; (5) WeChat mobile learning is only an extension of the current form of learning and cannot replace the current traditional school education; (6) Mobile learning mode based WeChat public account is an important teaching aid for teachers in the aspects of information dissemination, interactive mode and updated contents; (7) The experience of improving the current mobile learning model of WeChat public account can be enriched from students’ feedback. It is hoped that WeChat mobile learning will efficiently activate students’ learning potentials and promote English and American literature teaching innovation.
Highlights
The English and American Literature course offered by universities and colleges for English majors in China is a compulsory course which aims to improve students’ literary appreciation and English competence, open their multidimensional perspectives in dialectical thinking and logical analysis and promote their humanistic quality
The students chosen in this study are junior students which makes the results of the study not applicable to all the university students, so future study can be expanded to include students from all four grades in order to increase the credibility of previous studies
It is not enough to carry out only two similar tests for different teaching contents for the first half of this semester’s teaching content focuses on English literature while the second half is about American literature
Summary
The English and American Literature course offered by universities and colleges for English majors in China is a compulsory course which aims to improve students’ literary appreciation and English competence, open their multidimensional perspectives in dialectical thinking and logical analysis and promote their humanistic quality. With the advent of the information and big data age, a new teaching mode - the mobile learning model has come into being. One type of mobile learning mode, are specially and widely subscribed by university students. This paper tries to create Wechat public account based mobile learning mode by combining Wechat public account with arranged content of English and American literature. To evaluate this mode, this paper makes two elt.ccsenet.org. Vol 11, No 6; 2018 control experiments and a questionnaire to test the effectivity of Wechat public account based literature mobile learning
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