آموزش الکترونیک و تدریس زبان انگلیسی

The development of computer and information technology offers a favorable external environment for English teaching. There are more than 300 million learners of English in China. Information technology furnishes them with abundant teaching materials of English, which also provides an opportunity for teachers to change their pedagogical strategies so as to improve the efficiency of teaching and learning. This paper discusses the application and advantages of e-learning in English teaching, and analyses how to change the pedagogical strategies for teachers to improve teaching efficiency and enable students to master English as a second language quickly and effectively.

The Chinese people have been trying to learn foreign languages in the past 150 years and most of them learnt English. Countless people mastered English very well. Among them were architects, academics,politicians and diplomats. The main tools these people used were books, magazines and other paper materials.The luckiest students were those who sat in a classroom listening to foreign teachers in schools. About 30years ago, tape recorders became popular in China and the Chinese people began using cassette tape recorders when learning English.In recent years, computer and Internet are widely used. Accordingly, teachers should adjust their pedagogical strategies to improve teaching efficiency. But, unfortunately, the majority of teachers have not realized such necessity of change that the current information technology has brought us, let alone to explore how to use information technology to change the status quo of low efficiency that the Chinese people have been learning English over the past three decades. This paper is to explore the application and advantages of elearning in English teaching, analyses appropriate pedagogical strategies so as to improve students' learning efficiency, so that more students can master English as a second language.

It has proved that the efficiency of English teaching is very low in the past three decades in China, so the pedagogical strategies have to be amended, and e-learning is providing a rare opportunity.With the help of computer and Internet, E-learning brings the changes of pedagogical strategies and ultimately improves the efficiency of teaching and learning. If we insist on emphasizing grammar and vocabulary, then students are only good at passing exams, and cannot master a language. If we do not change,the new generation will still be not satisfied with school education in the next 30 years.Language ability is a kind of mental skill, which needs the right pedagogical strategies and training methods. E-learning will liberate the heavy labor of teachers’, but also enable students to easily master English.