微共同体在英语口语教学中有效性实证研究

Research on Effectiveness of WeChat Community on Oral English Teaching

微信已深入影响了人们的学习和生活,也为英语口语教学模式创新带来新的契机。与传统口语教学模式相比,基于微共同体的口语教学效果有显著差异。微共同体对英语口语能力发展有以下四点优势:促进教学以学生为中心、提高学生的积极性、增强师生情感交流、促进同伴互相学习,但存在缺少纠错机制和学生容易偏离讨论主题的局限性。

WeChat has deeply influenced people’s life and learning,and has brought new opportunities for the innovation of oral English teaching.Based on the scaffolding theory,both experimental and control group are chosen to compare the effect of traditional oral English and Wechat micro learning communities.The findings indicate that the latter has significant advantages such as emphasizing the students as the learning center;improving students’motivation to learn,enhancing teacher-student communication and interaction,and promoting peer learning.The drawback of Wechat micro learning communities includes immature teaching mode,a lack of mechanism for error correction and students’tendency to wander away from the teaching topics and so on.