Web-based foreign language teaching in China: Status Quo, methodology and prospect

Yan Yibo

Abstract

In the 1990s China started to explore web-based foreign language teaching. So far, some remarkable achievements have been made and the study of web-based foreign language teaching has shown signs of diversification. This paper studies the current development of research on web-based foreign language teaching in China, summarizes several problems in web-based foreign language teaching, and proposes effective methods to make web-based foreign language teaching more scientific and effective.