未来外语教师会被机器所取代吗——基于问卷调查的思考

Will Foreign Language Teachers be Replaced by Machines——Consideration Based on Questionnaire Survey

"互联网+"时代的快速发展,机器对外语教育产生了巨大冲击。国内有人质疑外语教师的作用,甚至断言外语教师要被机器取代,外语教师的生存状态产生了前所未有的危机。本文采用问卷调查和访谈的方式,解读了外语教师所面临的具体挑战,主要是海量的资源以及学习方式的多样性。但因为教师拥有机器所没有的优势,如情感的交流等,外语教师同其他学科教师一样不会被机器取代。文章探讨了我国外语教师的出路,主要是在知识、能力和人文素质方面提高自己,发展教师教育,落实终身学习理念,加快角色的转变,利用互联网科技,更好地促进与线下教学方式的融合,以期为外语教育事业贡献力量。

As the rapid development of "internet+" epoch, machines in which all kinds of technologies are embodied brings about a huge impact on foreign language education, hence, some people in China doubt the usefulness of foreign language teachers, and even assert that foreign language teachers would be replaced by the machine. The condition of foreign language teachers’ existence has been confronted and threatened with unprecedented challenges. This paper, through the ways of questionnaire and interview, tries to seek what those challenges are(mainly, enormous resources and various way of learning), reaches a conclusion that foreign languages teachers, like those in other disciplines, will not be replaced by the machines since teachers possess the advantages that the machines don’t have, like emotional communication. The paper then discusses which direction is the right one to go out of the maze, namely, trying to promote teachers in their knowledge, skills and humanistic literacy;developing teacher education;carrying out the idea of lifelong learning;accelerating the integration of online & offline courses.It is hoped to make a helpful contribution for the career of foreign language education.