中国电化教育

大学英语教学中存在的主要问题有学生对学习英语的兴趣不浓厚、学习目的不明确、学习方法单一、学习时效性不强等,这些问题也是大学英语教学改革中的难题。作为一种基于网络的开放式教学资源,MOOC近年来得到了众多学习者的青睐。在大学英语教学改革的背景下,该文指出慕课能够在大学英语教学改革中,丰富教辅资源、推进网上课堂及移动课堂,并起到兴趣开发和创新引导的作用。该文采用实证分析的方法检验了慕课资源的实际运用效果,方差分析结论显示,在0.05的显著性水平下,总体英语学习效果、语言知识维度、语言技能维度、情感态度维度、学习策略维度的F值均显著大于临界值3.94,这说明,在实验组使用慕课教学,与对比组相比,学生的英语学习总体效果和五个子维度的学习效果都有显著提升,也印证了该研究提出的慕课资源是有效的大学英语学习工具。

The major problems in college English teaching include the lack of interest, unclear objectives, monotonous teaching methods and outdated learning resources. Those problems are major hurdles confronting college English teaching reform. As a network-based open teaching resource, MOOC has been favored by many learners in recent years. Under the background of college English teaching reform, this paper points out that MOOC can enrich the teaching and learning resources, promote online and mobile classrooms in college English teaching reform, and it also plays the role of interest development and innovation. This study applies the method of empirical analysis to the effectiveness of MOOC application. The results of analysis of variance showed in the context of the level under 0.05, the value F of overall English learning effectiveness, language knowledge dimension, language skill dimension, attitude dimension and learning strategy dimension are respectively and significantly higher than those at the critical level of 3.94. This is to show that in the experimental group which adopted MOOC teaching, compared with the traditional-teaching group, the overall effectiveness of English learning and five sub-dimensional learning effects have been significantly improved, and it also confirms the study of the proposed MOOC resources is a valid college English learning tool.