How to Improve Foreign Language Teachers' Application Abilities of Information Technology in Big Data Era

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10.2991/essaeme-16.2016.124How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Big Data era; foreign language teachers; information technology; application ability.

Abstract

The popularity of Internet and mobile terminals marks a new era of big data. The big data has increasingly been promoted as a revolutionary development in the future of science and technology. Application of information technology (IT) has been one of the necessary professional abilities of modern foreign language teachers in the big data era. How to improve foreign language teachers' application abilities of IT in the big data era has been one of research focus of foreign language teaching reform. Firstly, combining the properties of foreign language learning and learners' needs, the opportunities and challenges of foreign language teachers are analyzed in the present study. Secondly, the application abilities of modern IT for foreign language teachers are grouped into two levels: general application abilities and special application abilities. Finally, some measures are suggested to improve foreign language teachers' application abilities of IT.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ge Liu
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