Traditional English Education and Online English Education 传统英语教育与在线英语教育.doc

传统英语教育与在线英语教育Traditional English Education and Online English EducationAbstractNow, the Internet is becoming increasingly significant in our society, such as online shopping, online game, and online education etc. This paper analyses the Traditional English Education and Online English Education. Firstly, Traditional English Education has some disadvantages, such as the lack of natural language environment, the limitation of English studying, and all of the classes under the teachers control, and it has some advantages as well. Communication is easily carrying on between students and teachers. Similarly, the Online English Education plays a very important role in our modern life. It offers us a lot, and the email is one of the most convenient communicative ways. Whats more, the teacher can create a virtual classroom, and however, it also has some disadvantages, and makes a distance in peoples emotions. Even more, it is restricted by some conditions, and it makes some students lazier. Based on the differences of both models, the author explains different aspects, such as the roles of the teachers, the application of the education resources, and organization of the teaching and learning activities, and so on. So combination of these two models is the aim of this thesis.Key WordsTraditional; English; education; online; English; education; comparison; combination摘要当今，因特网在社会的地位越来越重要。越来越多的人喜欢在网上做事，如网上购物，网络游戏，在线教育等。这篇论文首先分析了传统英语教育和在线英语教育两种模式。如传统英语教育缺乏英语语言环境，学习的方式也有限，学生总是在老师的安排下学习。但传统英语却更容易被中老年老师所接受，能使学生更好的掌握书本上的知识，老师和学生也能够更好地进行交流等。与之相对的在线英语教育功能强大，能够给我们提供很多的东西，其中电子邮件是最方便的交流方式，利用这一教育方式老师能够创造一个生动的课堂教学。但是，在线教育也有其弱点，如会使人与人之间产生情感距离，受一些特殊条件的限制，使一些学生越来越懒。本论文以传统英语教育与在线英语教育的不同点为基础，对所涉及到的各方面进行了比较，如教师角色，教学资源利用，教学活动组织等。通过传统英语教育与在线英语教育的比较，我们可以知道在线英语教育很多的优势所在。希望更多的人了解这一新技术革命，并有更多的英语老师能将这一技术革新应用于教学实践。因此，在教学中要灵活应变，使传统英语教学与在线英语教学相互结合是本文阐述的重点。关键词传统英语教育；在线英语教育；比较；结合 IntroductionIn recent years, the developments of net technologies bring many advantages to the educational fields. As a result of these developments, a new branch which is Online Education by Computer Assisted Language Learning in applied linguistics is flourished. It is obvious to everyone that traditional model of classroom teaching can no longer meet students needs. The Online Education becomes an important approach to teaching English.Generally speaking, it is possible to say that computer revolution has been done and it is impossible to keep it away from us. So the teachers must learn to live together with it, and benefit from using it. Through this new technology，classroom teaching will be more attractive and enjoyable; learning and teaching will be a real fun for both the students and the teachers.Many teachers, researchers and educators analyze some problems existing in Traditional English Education, such as the lack of natural language environment, the limitation of educational resources, the boring teaching and learning. So many teachers and educators introduce us a new teaching technology - the Online English Education, and display some advantages of it. Most people are not familiar with it, so I hope more teachers will put it into the classroom teaching. With the comparisons between Traditional English Education and Online English Education, the author will discuss more advantages about Online English Education, especially, the email as the most convenient communicative way. However, the Traditional English Education also has its advantages, and Online English Education has its disadvantages as well. Teachers should try their best to integrate the both together in their teaching. Only in this way can our country foster the young who are full of creativeness and innovation, which is also one policy of Chinese education. I. Analysis of Traditional English Education and Online English EducationThe Traditional English Education in our country is based on the Classroom English Language Teaching. This English Educational pattern can be generalized as textbook-centered. In a most common English class, a teacher usually starts with explaining the new words and phrases of a text, and then the content in the text. After analyzing the text, the teacher may give some assignments involving in the text for students and finally correct their homework. Thats how teacher organizes the class using a textbook in a classroom.A. Some Problems in Traditional English Education1. Lack of Natural Language EnvironmentAs for this traditional pattern, there exist some problems in teaching. For example, the students study English without a natural language environment，their own native tongue always interrupt them.2. The Limitation of English LearningThe ways of English studying are limited in one or two books, such as the grammatical book, the reading and writing book and so on, which let the learners spontaneously think that the learning of English is just the reciting of grammars and vocabularies. How boring this studying way is!Furthermore, the traditional pattern of English teaching is still focusing on examination. The knowledge about English language and background is very little, which causes a lack of cultural knowledge. So the learners cannot understand English in the whole facets and they cannot master the concrete language points flexibly. 3. All the Class under the Teachers ControlIn the class, the teachers words are all right. The students are absolutely under the teacher's control. In this pattern, there is no way to distinguish teaching from learning because students learning activities are involved in teachers teaching activities. A great problem arising from this kind of education pattern is that students are used to waiting for learning knowledge instead of producing new things actively.Of course, this does not mean we should not use any Traditional English Education. Otherwise, the Traditional English Education also has some advantages.B. The Advantages of the Traditional English Education1. Easily Acceptation to the Old or Middle Aged TeachersThe old or middle age teachers can easily accept it. Now, in the junior or senior school, there are so many old teachers who have got enough experience in the teaching, but the fast development of the society and the reform of the education systems make them in the trouble. They suddenly dont know what to do in the classroom and they are puzzled to face the computer. So it needs time for Online English Education to transform from Traditional English Education.2. Making the Students Know More about the TextbookAt present, the government changes the traditional idea in the education, and takes the quality of the education as the most important aim, develops the students ability in the filed of the morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetic and labor. However, at the same time, we must get good grade or entry a famous university, so we must study very hard and take many exam papers. This Traditional English Education can make the students get more knowledge from the textbook, and the resource of the material also can reduce the burden on the students shoulders， this pattern education also gives the exam skills to students.3. Better Communication Between Teachers and StudentsIn the traditional classroom, the teachers and the students can comminute better. If the students have something that they dont understand, the teacher can give more details to them. Also the teacher can give her or his love and care to them not only in the teaching classroom but also in their daily life. The teacher and the students can be familiar with each other and get more on common. So the Traditional English Education is full of the emotion. Moreover, the teacher can take her or his teaching process more flexibly according to the students level of the study.C. Analysis of Online English EducationNowadays, the Internet is becoming significant in our society. People believe that education has the potential to mobilize people and to equip them with capacity of innovation and creation, versatility and adaptability. “Here the potential of new internet technologies offer such people new opportunities for learning and achieving their aspirations” (Martino, 6).1. Offering Us a Lot.Online English Education is a comfortable way to learn English at your home or office. This education is suitable for students who wish to improve their English level or for teachers who wish to continue to learn.Firstly, let us look at what the Online English Education can offer us. As Martino argues, “One of the main features of the Internet is its openness, its lack of structure or control”. Through the Internet, it is possible to extend learning and teaching activities. What the Internet technologies can provide us is one-teacher-to-many students interaction mode. With regard to language learning, virtual reality has the potential to transport learners to the country where they are learning its language and give them the sense“Wandering through the streets of a foreign city” and “talking to the foreign people” they meet. Although the internet cannot replace first-hand experience, it may be much more convenient and accessible in teams of time and money, as it is a bank of resources at all times. You need only click the mouse, the learners can access through the internet and get whatever they need. For example, there are many websites which provide free resources for teachers and students. Search Abraham Lincoln, click , and Christmas Day, click and so on.2. Emails Are One of the Most Convenient Communicative Ways.Another chief channel of Online English Educational facilities is the email, which is a rapid way to communicate. “It doesnt allow the immediate interruption to our thinking processes” (Jones, K 89). But now the email allows our time to thought. Thanks to the email, the teacher can have convenient and prompt communications with the students, offering those necessary help and counsel whenever needed and available. For example, Warchauer analyzed the traditional hand-in-and- return method of the compositions, he advised us to use the email. “Email provides a perfect mechanism for students to submit draft and for teachers to look them over at their convenience and the teacher send draft back with comments again and again. New ideas are shared promptly and can be responded to quickly. The students can not only send their writing to the teachers, but also send their work to each other simultaneously. As a result, an individual student can receive comments from all classmates.” (Wang Qiang,226).3. The Teacher Can Create a Virtual ClassroomCurrently, a large number of schools offer remote courses.The Virtual Classroom is a teaching and learning environment located within a computer-mediated communication system. The objectives of a Virtual Classroom are to improve the access of advanced educational experience by allowing students and instructors to participate in remote learning communities using personal computers at home or at work; and to improve the quality and effectiveness of education by using computer to support a collaboratative learning process. This mode of learning can be more interactive and more effective than the traditional (physical) classroom.One cannot, for example, learn to paint by viewing a finished painting; rather, one must see the evolution of the paining. The student must observe the instructors mental process and the instructor must observe that of the student. The special software structures incorporated in this system were specifically designed to support collaborative learning, including discussions, student presentations, joint projects, debates, role-playing games, etc. Participation is generally asynchronous; that is, the Virtual Classroom participants may dial in any time and from any location in the world accessible by a reliable telephone system.An excellent illustration is the Question-Answer Activity, where if the instructor asks a discussion question, every student must answer before facing the other students. This feature in Virtual Classroom is equal participation in any discussion issue that the instructor triggers in this manner. It forces each student to think independently.Another key facility is using of anonymity or pen names. For example, many students with woke experience can point out mistakes without embarrassing their company. This sharing of experience is important to making many courses more relevant to the students who have not lived through such experiences. Many of the features of the current system are summarized in the communication structures table.D. The Disadvantages of the Online English Education1. Making a Distance between Peoples EmotionThe Online English Education needs the computer, if we need information that we want; we need by just click at the mouse. The students and the teachers communicate through the computer. Thus, they lack of emotion. If the students have some difficulties but they dont want to ask the teacher, the teacher also doesnt know about his or her students level of the study, then the teacher cant be flexibly to control the teaching classroom. So there is something wrong with the Online English Education.2. Restriction of Condition.As our country developing, so many high science and technology are used into the education system. In city, every school has her own multimedia classroom and almost every child can operate computer. However, there are many poor places, the rural children have limited resource of the study, most of them still use the simplest tools, such as the stone desk, limestone as chalk, they love textbook but only to copy it by hand. So, it is still very hard to put the Online Education into widely use. But I believe one day it will be widely used.3. Making Students Lazier.The Internet is widely used, and it can be used in studying, playing games, shopping, surfing the material and so on. Many students may be good at study, but have no time to finish the homework, so they surf the Internet and copy others production. Moreover, some students arent interested in the study, when teacher explain the content of text, they may think it is very boring, so they play games or do what they want to do in the classroom.II Comparison between Traditional English Education and Online English EducationTeachers, students and learning material are the three main factors in the whole process of English Education. Traditional English Education and Online English Education greatly differ from each other in the following aspects.A. Teachers RoleHarmer says,“Teacher plays multiple roles in communicative activities as controller, as assessor, as organizer, as prompter, as resource” （Wang Qiang, 69）. A teacher is a decisive factor in second language acquisition because the purpose of language teaching is not to pass on special knowledge to students but to train students to apply knowledge in