A Task-Oriented English Education Platform Powered by ICT&AI

Abstract

Lacking of pragmatic competence is a long existing issue for Chinese student, and the problem is even worse for those who live in rural regions, where both teachers and resource are rare. We are trying to break the regional disparity, provide better teaching resources for those in need by means of ICT and AI techniques that highly developed today. In this paper, we present the idea of how we designed and implemented this free English education platform to help kids especially those with financial difficulties to improve their pragmatic competence. In this platform, multiply access methods are provide at user side to adapt to different requirements; the unique server side is developed based on microservice architecture, which make the system easy to expand and maintain; a recommendation scheme and the social media system WeChat are employed as the main promotion methods; class is task-oriented designed to improve pragmatic competence of learner; online class, live video, and AI chatbot will be provided for different training purpose. This platform will integrate high-quality resource, and act as a hub that will connect eager learners and volunteer teachers, who can study and teach anywhere conveniently.