Study on the Application of Wechat in College English Listening and Speaking Course

Abstract

With the rapid development of digital information technology and mobile communication technology, mobile phone media is rapidly penetrating into people's daily lives. As an instant messaging application, WeChat is spreading and developing at a tremendous speed. Based on the search of relevant literature, we found that there were many studies on the application of WeChat in the education of primary and junior high schools in China. However, its application in colleges and universities emphasizes more on students' ideological education and lack systematic research on the application of WeChat in classroom teaching. This research takes WeChat as the learning tool and investigates the process, strategy and evaluation of applying WeChat in the teaching of listening and speaking English in college. Also, it adopts listening and speaking tests to test the experimental effect and offers suggestions. The results indicated that WeChat could be effectively applied in college English Listening and Speaking Course and helped students improve their listening and speaking skills efficiently.