利用网络探究性学习提高大学英语教学水平(英文)

Supporting Teaching and Learning in College English with Technology:WebQuest

随着我国社会及经济的不断发展,大学的教育水平发展得更加迅猛。近来现代教育理论已经从传统的学生被动接受转向创造性思维,问题的解决和分析的能力培养上。本文探讨在部分云南农业大学非英语专业一年级学生中用新的多媒体电脑技术——网络探究性学习,培养创造性思维。其目的是创造良好的学习环境,帮助学生构建自己的知识体系,提高学习成绩。根据建构主义理论,教师应设计恰当的学习任务进行以学生为中心的教学。文章论述如何设计和组织网络探究性学习,通过分析研究结果和网络探究性学习问卷调查,显示出它的优势及局限性。最后,得出结论,这种新的教学方法——网络探究性学习在现代教学中有很强的适用性,是一种值得提倡推广的有效的教学手段。

With the social and economic development of our country, education at college level is change rapidly. Currently, modern education theory is moving from the traditional recall studying into the areas of creative thinking, problem thinking and analysis. This paper mainly discusses how to use the new multimedia computer technology-webquest to make some of students＇ creative thinking in the first-year non-English major students in Yunnan Agricultural University. The purpose is to construct good learning environment to help students construct their own knowledge and improve their learning result. According to constructivist theory, the teacher should design appropriate activities which lead to student-centered teaching. The paper describes how to design WebQuest and organization it well. Through analysis of the results of tasks and the questionnaire of the webquest, we can find the benefits and limiation of it. Finally, we can draw a conclusion that the new teaching method -WebQuest is a pratical teaching method in modern education and it is a very useful tool for us to be worth popularity.