Abstract
The English proficiency of Chinese college students is mainly constrained by their low interest in English learning. The English educators in Chinese colleges must improve the initiative of their students to learn English. This paper attempts to create a college English teaching platform based on computer networking technology. Taking flipped classroom as the theoretical basis of college English education, the author introduced the concept and development of flipped classroom, and verified the feasibility of applying the theory in English teaching. To provide the media for flipped classroom, a college English teaching platform was built on the browser/server (B/S) structure, and used to promote the information-based English teaching in colleges. The functional modules and main interfaces of the platform were illustrated one by one. The flipped classroom-based B/S teaching platform was adopted for one semester by a college in Hunan Province. The class using this platform was taken as the test group, and another class without using the platform as the control group. The English scores of the two groups were compared, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed platform. Our research demonstrates the value of flipped classroom, and the proposed teaching platform helps improve the efficiency of college English teaching.
Highlights
Today, China has improved its international status and influence year after year, Chinese culture and Chinese language have been more and more influential around the world, but in the foreseeable decades, English still dominates the international exchange, finance, trade, IT, computer technology, and other industries
There are some gaps in English education in universities such as low interest of students, single teaching model and lack of teaching interaction, etc
There are experimental and control classes. The former adopts the college English education model based on the B/S architecture and the flipping classroom; the traditional English teaching mode is still used in the control class
Summary
China has improved its international status and influence year after year, Chinese culture and Chinese language have been more and more influential around the world, but in the foreseeable decades, English still dominates the international exchange, finance, trade, IT, computer technology, and other industries. It is still the focus of quality education in universities in China. Based on the flipped classroom, this paper aims to design a high-quality teaching platform with easy access to the daily English teaching interaction for students. In the application of college English teaching practice, the platform has been proven to be helpful in improving students’ English level by the frontend and backend methods
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