Study on the Improvement of English Writing Abilities through Online Interactive Activities From a Constructive Perspective
The fast development of economy and technology in recent years presents new opportunities as well as challenges for English teaching in China. On one hand, there are higher demands on college English learners mastery of English. After years of being passive learners and fed with chunks of bitesized knowledge, they are now challenged to become active learners, critical thinkers and communicative writers of English. On the other hand, computer technology is more closely integrated into the language classroom and offers new opportunities for computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activities. In particular, computer-assisted online learning projects prove extremely helpful in the teaching of English writing. Along with these changes, the constructivist learning perspective is highly evaluated currently, which emphasizes learners active learning and construction of meaning. In the perspective of constructivist learning, teachers should assume more of a facilitators role and learners take more control over their learning. Hence, it seems that constructivist learning theories will throw hints on the current reform in English teaching. Therefore, the current thesis attempts to explore a new approach to improve students writing abilities through online interactive writing activities. The thesis starts with the theoretical framework of the study. Then it is followed by the problems existed in current college EFL writing instruction in China and students expectation to online writing. The latter part of the thesis reports on the experiment about the application of extra curriculum online writing activities, conducted among 36 students from Zaozhuang University. Three hypotheses are put forward. The results of the study show that online writing activities are effective in improving students writing abilities and teacher acts more of a participant than merely an assistant or coordinator. The thesis concludes with some implications for future studies in this field.
constructivism English writing instruction online writing
Chunli Zhang
Foreign Language Department Zaozhuang University Zaozhuang,Shandong Province,China
国际会议
厦门
英文
380-390
2016-12-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）