On web-assisted college english autonomous learning

Abstract

The progress of internet and communication technology has called for changes in College English teaching mode. The traditional teacher centered method can't keep up with the society. The 21st century needs people who are autonomous learners. Consequently, teachers have the responsibility to implement internet and communication technology into their teaching and involve developing student's learning autonomy as their teaching goal. This is a research on fostering students learning through webassisted English teaching. 32 non-English majors in grade two were selected for the research. Through one-year application of web-assisted English teaching method, the research aims at exploring students' changes in learning motivation, learning efficiency, listening & speaking, learning strategy and communication skills. In the research, questionnaires on learning anatomy were conducted on the students, also, students were asked to write their opinions on the web-assisted teaching method which may cover the problems they encountered and suggestions they have. The results shows that in web-assisted learning environment, most students' autonomous learning ability have been improved, especially on learning motivation, learning strategy, and communication skills, while on learning motivation, learning efficiency and learning strategy, some students feel worse than before. The author of this paper suggests teacher take new roles in the new learning environment.