Teaching Writing to EFL College Students in the Big Data Era

Abstract

The wide spreading of the Internet and Web-based appliances help human beings enter into the big data era. The big data era provides teaching writing to EFL college students with abundant resources, technology-based teaching aides and new ideas. In this situation, teaching writing is facing opportunities and challenges in its reform. EFL college teachers and students need to use various online and offline resources based on technology. Therefore, it is necessary for students to grasp enhance their multimodal learning and to cultivate their autonomous learning in studying writing. Fundamental writing skills also need to be improved, and other strategies such as error correction, brainstorming, journal writing and peer review, are equally important in raising EFL college students writing ability.