Construction of the Discourse Ecosystem in College English Classrooms from the Perspective of Educational Ecology

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10.2991/978-2-38476-569-0_37How to use a DOI?

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Educational Ecology; College English Classrooms; Discourse Ecosystem; Ecological Reconstruction

Abstract

The balance of the discourse ecosystem in college English classrooms is a core guarantee for achieving teaching objectives and promoting students’ all-round development. From the interdisciplinary perspective of educational ecology and ecolinguistics, this study adopts a four-dimensional analytical framework of “subject-environment-relation-culture” and combines classroom observation and literature analysis to systematically explore the imbalance characteristics and underlying causes. The research identifies four major imbalances: teachers’ discourse hegemony and students’ subject absence, uneven distribution and single form of discourse opportunities, disconnection of discourse content from real contexts and cultural connotations, and lack of constructiveness and ecological orientation in discourse feedback. These imbalances stem from rigid concepts of ecological subjects, improper configuration of ecological environments, rigid structures of ecological relations, and biased orientation of ecological culture. Correspondingly, reconstruction strategies are proposed: clarifying teachers’ and students’ ecological niches to build an equal dialogue community, optimizing classroom environments to innovate interactive organizational forms, enriching discourse content to enhance cultural and contextual adaptability, and constructing a diversified and dynamic evaluation mechanism to ensure sustainable ecological development. This study aims to provide theoretical support and practical paths for addressing the dilemma of “teacher-dominated, student-silent” college English classrooms, and promote the transformation of the classroom discourse ecosystem towards a healthy state of teacher-student symbiosis and coordinated development of language competence and humanistic literacy.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lingling Jiang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/05/01
TI  - Construction of the Discourse Ecosystem in College English Classrooms from the Perspective of Educational Ecology
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Development and Social Sciences (EDSS 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 296
EP  - 305
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-569-0_37
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-569-0_37
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