Study on the Obstacles in Using of College English Excellent Courses Based on the Learner's Perspective

Abstract

At present, the researches on the College English Excellent courses are mostly from the perspective of curriculum developers or teachers, but not from the perspective of learners. However, The study found that the factors which affect the learners' use of the course include: (1) the design of curriculum resources has not considered the students' English foundation and interest; (2) learners' learning motivation is different, and the internal motivation is low;(3)learners' acceptance degree is different;(4) learners' information literacy is uneven. The construction of quality resources should be started from the perspective of learners, and improve the effectiveness of its teaching application in the future. Keywords—college English excellent courses; learner's perspective; learning motivation; information literacy I. RESEARCH BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE The program of National Excellent Courses was started by The Ministry of Education since April 2003.The construction of Excellent Courses promotes the university to establish the information learning environment, and gradually improves the support service standard; provide high quality support services for students' individualized learning. It plays a significant role in improving the level of school classroom teaching, promoting higher education information technology and curriculum integration. Along with the continuous development of related research, the research found that there are some problems in the construction of Excellent Courses: (1)paying more attention to declaring but less to construction, emphasizing the quantity and neglecting the quality; (2)social awareness is not enough; (3)benefits are not obvious; (4)lack of effective management mechanism. National Excellent Courses is a service to the learners, but at present, the quality course satisfaction of the learners is not high. Finding out the cause of this situation is important to improve the construction of Excellent Courses platform.