Study of Virtual Learning Community on Foreign Language Teaching
Based on the introduction of the definitions of virtual community and virtual language learning community and the current teaching and learning situations of foreign language teachers and learners in colleges and universities, the paper puts the use of vi
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Study of Virtual Learning Community on Foreign Language Teaching Xiaohua Zhu
Abstract Based on the introduction of the definitions of virtual community and virtual language learning community and the current teaching and learning situations of foreign language teachers and learners in colleges and universities, the paper puts the use of virtual community into foreign language teaching and learning and points out the advantages of them combined with the features of foreign language teaching and learning. Some suggestions are given to support the language teachers and learners to work much more effectively. Keywords Virtual community • Virtual learning community • Language learning
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Introduction
With the development of information and network technology, the number of the virtual community has increased at the unknown growth rate. Virtual community provide a new way of shopping, communication, and working and life for people. This new social organization has remarkable influence on each person on the traditional community [1]. Virtual community’s rapid growth and development has provided many valuable research topics, and these studies involve information technology, economics, management, psychology and other aspects. Virtual communities have also penetrated to the field of foreign language learning [2]. Virtual language learning community stemmed from the popularity of the internet. More and more students have found that the language network learning method is convenient and efficient. The way of learning foreign language is
X. Zhu (*) Department of Tourism, Chongqing Education College, Chongqing, China e-mail: [email protected] S. Zhong (ed.), Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Cybernetics 371 and Informatics, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 163, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3872-4_48, # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
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transferred from face-to-face to the network approach. According to the China Internet Network Information Center Research Report, 36 % of the Internet users, 137 million people, have registered English websites or language communities. 14.3% of the frequently used network service is for the function of network education, and this data is increasing, that presents the developing tendency for the virtual language learning community.
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Theory of Virtual Community and Virtual Learning Community
48.2.1 Virtual Community Many scholars in different points defined virtual community. Howard (1993) defined virtual community as the virtual network space with activities including the views, knowledge discussion and Emotional exchange between the participants from the perspective of temporal relationship. Hagel and Armstrong (1997) from the discussed content source of the virtual community defined it, and they thought that all of the data and the expression of emotion in the virtual community came from the discussion between the community members and differed from the general online service. Hesse (1995) defined the virtual community as the exchange o
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