A Study On The Framework Of College English Network Teaching Platform Based On Students' Needs

With the rapid development of technology, using the modern educational technology to improve the standard of college English teaching has became a hot topic. College English Curriculum Requirements says that the objective of college English is to develop students'ability to use English in a well-round way, so that they will be able to communicate effectively, and at a time enhance their general culture awareness so as to enhance their capacity of studying independently. According to the Requirements, colleges and universities should take full advantage of modern technology to revolute the traditional teaching model. Thus, making fully use of the multi-media technology to establish a college English network teaching platform, which is featured by dynastic, interaction, and individual-orientation, is necessary and useful.Based on overviewing the research about the network teaching platform, the author uses questionnaire and interviews to explore the students'needs on college English network teaching platform. In this paper, a total of 140 students from non-English major at Guangxi Normal University participated in the study. Based on the survey, the thesis investigates the following three questions:1. What is the actual situation of students'need of college English network teaching platform?2. What are the differences between art students and sciences students in the need of college English network teaching platform?3. What is the framework of college English network teaching platform?The whole questionnaire consists of five factors:Web-resources, On-line Interaction, Monitoring, Assessment and the Individual Design. The author employs SPSS 12.0 for quantitative analysis, and the results can be summarized as follows:1. Students have higher needs on web-resources, and they accept more resources expect those related to the textbook.2. Students are more inclined to the communication with peer, and they like the way of on-line communication.3. Students have lower needs on college English network teaching platform's monitoring, meanwhile they like self-monitor more than being monitored by platform or teachers.4. Teachers should take effective assessment for students'on-line learning.5. Students have no higher or lower interests in college English network teaching platform's individual design.6. The male students and female students have similar needs in the teaching platform design, and the science students have much higher need than the art students especially in web-resources, on-line interaction and monitoring.The author concludes the principle of college English network teaching platform and puts forward a new college English network teaching platform which is based on the students'needs. In accordance with the above findings, the implication of this research can be summarized as follows:1. Building a learner-centered and relaxed language learning environment.2. Playing fully the role of the teacher in the college English network teaching platform.3. Combining learning strategies with the college English network teaching platform.4. Updating the on-line resources constantly.