J4 ›› 2012, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (11): 80-84.

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Adaptability Research of the English Network Teaching for Minority College Student

Taking samples from Dali University, this study explored minority college student's adaptability to English network
teaching, which was studied from four factors including the awareness and attitude of on-line autonomous learning, computer and network application skills, self-regulatory capability of on-line learning, and the teacher. The results revealed that students had generally low adaptability to on-line learning and considerable students poorly adapted. The main causes were lack of computer operation skills, ambiguous study aim, poor self-regulatory capability of autonomous learning, and lack of proper strategies. The study offered suggestions and guidance to improve minority college student's English autonomous learning ability in the web-based mode and eliminate unfavorable factors.   

  1. College of Foreign Languages, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China
  • Received:2012-08-21 Online:2012-11-15 Published:2012-11-15

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Abstract:

Taking samples from Dali University, this study explored minority college student's adaptability to English network
teaching, which was studied from four factors including the awareness and attitude of on-line autonomous learning, computer and network application skills, self-regulatory capability of on-line learning, and the teacher. The results revealed that students had generally low adaptability to on-line learning and considerable students poorly adapted. The main causes were lack of computer operation skills, ambiguous study aim, poor self-regulatory capability of autonomous learning, and lack of proper strategies. The study offered suggestions and guidance to improve minority college student's English autonomous learning ability in the web-based mode and eliminate unfavorable factors.

Key words: minority college student, college English, network teaching mode, adaptability

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