An Exploration on Using Mobile Smart Terminals to Promote the Reform of College English Teaching and Learning

Abstract

College English is a compulsory basic course for higher education in China. At the same time, handling a secondary language is a must-have under the globalization. However, the students’ English proficiency has always been unsatisfactory after so many years of teaching and learning. Meanwhile, in the era of information and data, Internet has not only changed our country’s economic model, but also brought a revolution in education. Nowadays, Every college student has a mobile smart terminal at least, and we can make full use of this device to improve the teaching methods and even implement it into classrooms. Based on this opportunity, this article explores how to use mobile smart devices to improve the traditional “teaching” and “learning” for non-English majors in universities.