A Survey And Empirical Study On The College English Individualized Teaching Model

The study aims to explore the network-based individualized college English teaching model. It has been argued for a most proper English teaching system for quite a long time. Gradually evolved from the traditional English teaching model, the college English teaching in China has established a general pattern, that is, computer-assisted language teaching. However, the new adoption of the computer and multimedia does not change the essence of the traditional language teaching belief. On the base of the information-processing theory, the constructivism theory, autonomous learning and needs analysis, it is found that there is a gap between the theoretical research and the practice in the aspect of the establishment of the individualized teaching model. Thus, the goal of the paper is to promote the establishment of the individualized teaching on the basis of network with the 3L college English teaching model as the background in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.The research carries out the student survey, teacher interview and the teaching experiment to investigate the effectiveness of a network-based individualized model. From the questionnaire data analysis of student survey, it is found that students generally accept the 3L model but they have more expectation from it, which needs further reform and improvement. The summary of teacher interview reveals that the 3L model to some extent levels the different needs of individual students. However, the motivation of students has not been fully exploited and autonomous learning has not rooted in the English learning. The experiment of network-based individualized teaching has proved to some degree that the experimental teaching functions in the areas of English listening, reading and vocabulary and it does stimulate the motivation of English learning according to the attitude questionnaire survey.The research adopts the questionnaire, interview and proficiency test as the instruments and analyzes the statistics in the SPSS by the means of frequency, description, Independent-Sample T-test and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test of non-parameter test. The results of the research show that the network-based individualized English teaching model does have positive impact on the college English teaching and learning, especially listening, vocabulary and reading.The research suggests that it is feasible and valuable to build up a network-based individualized college English teaching model and further exploration of the model will be beneficial to all parts.