Solutions on Obstacles of Applying Educational Technologies in Chinese Primary and Middle School English Classrooms

DOI

10.2991/icesed-19.2020.84How to use a DOI?

Keywords

educational technology, obstacles, digital literacy, in-service teacher training, the large class size.

Abstract

With the development of audio-visual education researches, researchers and educators have revealed advantages of applying technologies for educational purposes. Digital applications and tools are also developed to play positive roles in classrooms. Nonetheless, there are still obstacles impeding the further development of educational technologies. This paper tries to discuss three common concerns by reviewing previous researches and articles, which are: 1) the lack of qualified teachers mastering both teaching and computer skills, 2) students’ less developed digital literacy in their early stages, 3) a long-lasting problem of extremely large class size. This article also tends to provide solutions of the three common accepted obstacles, aiming at the students’ early digital literacy development, trainings about education technology on in-service teachers, policies on solving the large class size problem and how could introductions of educational technologies be carried out during that process.

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© 2020, 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  - Haoyang Yu
PY  - 2020/01
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TI  - Solutions on Obstacles of Applying Educational Technologies in Chinese Primary and Middle School English Classrooms
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Education Science and Economic Development (ICESED 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 56
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SN  - 2352-5428
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