Abstract
With the coming of the information age, computer-based teaching model has had an important impact on English teaching. Since 2004, the trial instruction on Network-assisted Language Teaching (NALT) Model integrating the English instruction and computer technology has been launched at some universities in China, including China university of Geosciences (Beijing) (CUGB). The purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence about whether NALT Model can enhance undergraduate English skills more effectively than the traditional teaching model. In this study, an experimental study is conducted to get the data (students’ exam scores from experimental group and control group). Then a comparison method is utilized to analyze the experiment data that is the final examinations of every semester from the fall semester of 2005 to the fall semester of 2006 at CUGB. The results of a separate independent t-test demonstrate significant differences between experimental and control groups in mid-test and post-test with SPSS 11.5. Then a graphical model Plane Analysis Model (Li & Xie, 1994) is used to analyze the statistical characteristics of both groups’ scores. The results show that the whole distribution of the experimental group’s scores in the post-test is totally in the best state. Above study results indicate NALT model is indeed more effective than the traditional classroom teaching model in improving undergraduate English skills. This study contributes to the better realization of the effect of NALT model, and urges researchers to deepen the study of this field in future.
Highlights
Since 2004, the trial teaching on a new teaching model integrating the English instruction and computer technology has been launched at some universities in China
Since 2004, the trial instruction on Network-assisted Language Teaching (NALT) Model integrating the English instruction and computer technology has been launched at some universities in China, including China university of Geosciences (Beijing) (CUGB)
The purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence about whether NALT Model can enhance undergraduate English skills more effectively than the traditional teaching model
Summary
Since 2004, the trial teaching on a new teaching model integrating the English instruction and computer technology has been launched at some universities in China. Teachers bring in the new textbooks “New Perspective College English” and “New Horizon College English” published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press and their network learning platform called “New Perspective English Learning System” and “New Horizon English Learning System” to use this new teaching model effectively The former is used to train students’ listening and speaking and the latter is to train their reading and writing. In the “community communication” of this system, students can interact with teachers, including receiving learning tasks showed by teachers, asking questions, handing in assignments, and bringing up learning suggestions and so on This system designs a series of tests for students’ self-assessment and teachers’ teaching assessment. The result of every test is showed with charts, which makes teachers understand students’ learning situation more directly
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