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Optimization of Ecological Class in  Foreign
Language Teaching

• Abstract Ecological crisis is one of the global
  problems that human have to face. Influenced by
  the global ecological trend, reseachers proposed
  the views of teaching ecology in the process of
  studying the subsystems of the educational system
  based on the principles of ecological philosophy.
  Ideas of Ecological Education assume that human
  is the central group, and its core values is to
  promote humans all- round development in the
  information ecology. In the whole ecological
  system of education, class teaching is among the
  ecological factors, and is considered as the main
  way of quality education. Teaching is a process
  of equal dialogue between teachers and students
  in the help of teaching contens, teaching means
  and etc. This paper, considering the increasing
  application of educational technology in recent
  years, analyzes how to optimize the class
  teaching ecology in the foreign language teaching
  in the basis of two ecological balance of
  teaching process teachers democratic manner and
  students autonomic manner in learning. As a
  result, the final goal of training the talents
  with high qualities and all-round development is
  completed with the teaching.

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Optimization of Ecological Class in  Foreign
Language Teaching

• Key words
• online education,
• foreign language teaching,
• class teaching ecology,
• optimization

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Optimization of Ecological Class in  Foreign
Language Teaching

• Introduction
• The necessity of optimizing the ecological class
• Ways of optimizing the ecological class
• Summary

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1. Introduction

• In the 21th century, the coming of the global
  Internet era brought a new education model to the
  reform on teaching and education --- Online
  Education. It is not only the important part of
  modern distance education, but will be the main
  education model of this century in high
  education. Online teaching brought the
  convenience to class teaching, and even more,
  became a challenge to the traditional class
  teaching.

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1. Introduction

• The best way of achieving the good teaching
  effect is the complement and co-existence of two
  class teachings. Class, as among the ecological
  factors, is the main channel of quality education
  and of keeping the ecological balance of
  teaching. In the micro-ecosystem of class
  teaching, how to develop the harmonious
  relationship between them becomes the focus on
  education reform.

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Introduction

• Teachers manner and students attitude in
  learning benefit for the establishment of good
  ecological balance at class. The construction of
  two important ecological balances teachers
  democratic manner and students automatic manner
  in the teaching process, contribute to the two
  concerning ecological factors teacher and
  student.

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2. The necessity of optimizing the ecological
class

• 2.1 State analysis

• 2.2 The ecological class teaching

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2.1 State analysis

• In the recent years the internationized feature
  in the high education has become clearer and
  clearer, however, College English Teaching in
  China can not meet the international development.
  Though many universities have made some reforms
  and attempts in teaching system, model and method
  and etc, it is not nearly enough to change
  radically the state of College English Teaching
  in the high education.

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2.1 State analysis

• The expansion of undergraduate led to the
  teaching way of large class which took bad effect
  on organizing the interactivities between the
  ecological factors teachers and students, or
  students and students at class. Most Class are
  still the "One-way Presentation" of
  teacher-centered method, the "Interactive
  Communication" is hard to be realized.

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2.1 State analysis

• Teaching aims at the examination
• This examination-oriented education system
  breaks the laws of language learning, and
  students are lack of opportunities in practising
  and using language, and lack of interactivities
  between teachers and students. All these
  disadvantages contribute to the lose of balance
  in the teaching ecosystem, naturally students are
  easy to lose their activities and learning
  interests.

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2.1 State analysis

• English learning is not only to study a language
  itself. Language is the carrier of culture. The
  short 45 minute- class has no way to carry all
  these rich cultural implications to learners. The
  present single English teaching model cannot meet
  the demands and laws of language learning. Online
  classs, as an assisted teaching way of the
  traditional class, can provide the rich resources
  of language and culture, and can also bring more
  visual resources to help learners understand and
  feel the native accent?native expression.

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2.1 State analysis

• As professor Gu Yueguo proposed that online
  education can provide the best educational
  ecosystem for learners. Internet provides a
  better joint for the integration between class
  teaching and information technology. The
  combination of two class teachings can motivate
  teachers and students, the two ecological factors
  to optimize the teaching process and learning
  effects.

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2.2 The ecological class teaching

• American educator Waller. firstly proposed the
  theory of ecology of classroom in his
  Sociology of Education. From the perspectives of
  educational ecology, ecological class means that
  in class teaching the environment should be
  harmonious and benefit for students sustainable
  development. In the micro-ecological system of
  class, the final aim is to direct educatees body
  and mind to suit the natural and social
  development, and promote social progress and
  ecological balance.

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2.2 the ecological class teaching

• The central values of ecolgoical system of
  education in online environment  is to promote
  theachers and students all-round development in
  the information ecology, and place emphasis on
  the harmonious interreaction between man,
  technology and teaching practice. Online teaching
  makes up for tha lack of traditional class, the
  co-exisistence and complement of the virtual and
  real classes built up an effectively ecological
  environment for students automatic learning.

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2.2 the ecological class teaching

• The two central groups teachers and students
  constitute two important balances of teching
  process teachers democratic manner and
  students automatic manner in independent
  learning, which natrually become the keys in the
  dynamic ecosystem between teaching and learning.

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3.The ways of optimizing the ecological
class teaching

• In the educational ecosystem, teaching is a key
  link and a dynamic process referring to the
  harmonious development of the ecological factors
  during the class teaching. The practices
  indicated that the optimization of the ecological
  class teaching can be realized only through
  keeping the balance of two kinds of manners in
  the process of teaching teachers democratic
  manner and students automatic manner in
  learning.

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The ways of optimizing the ecological class
teaching

• 3.1 teachers democratic manner
• 3.1.1. Respect
• 3.1.2. Expectation
• 3.1.3 Appreciation
• 3.1.4. Encouragement
• 3.1.5 Empowerment
• 3.2 students automatic manner in
• independent learning
• 3.3 establishing the internet suitable to
  learners
• independent learning

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3.1 teachers democratic manner

• Teachers manner as a key factor during the
  teaching process plays an important hand in
  students moral development. The expression of
  good manner as a teacher has something with his
  or her moral and intellectual character, and his
  or her whole quality.

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• In online environment, class is transformed from
  the teacher-oriented to the student-oriented
  teaching, Teacher is not only a teacher, but more
  a facilitator, organizer, supervisor, trainer or
  friend. As a teacher, how to do can form the
  democratic manner?
• Firstly, teacher should have the democratic
  concept in teaching process.
• Secondly, possessing more equally educational
  behavior is very necessary to teachers,
  especially to the disadvantageous group.
• Thirdly teacher with a good manner should be of
  several consciounesses

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3.1.1. Respect

• In contemporary society and classroom, respect
  goes both ways. It is not a given, and needs to
  be earned. New-type relationship between teacher
  and student in online environment should develop
  the mutual respect.

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3.1.2. Expectation

• All of students do something in the hope of their
  success, even more they devote their
  expectation to inner confidence in learning and
  daily life. Therefore teachers should believe
  that every one would be successful, and convey
  this belief to students through teachers eyes,
  smiles, intonation and etc, make them feel
  teachers support and facilitation.

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3.1.3 Appreciation

• Teachers should use appreciation education, find
  students Sparking Point and appreciate their
  values, help them to cultivate the
  Self-confidence. Teachers with good manners are
  often good at finding their strongpoint, commend
  and moderately encourage them, and let them feel
  the happiness of success. ?

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3.1.4. Encouragement

•   Teachers are natural advise-givers and
  problem-solvers. Teachers should show their
  encouragement through the behaviors. What
  teachers want to do is to become a guide or
  encourager who assists the student in exploring
  and discovering various solutions to his own
  problem. The achievement of encouragement
  education also depend on teacherswords, smiles
  and eyes or other body languages and so on.

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3.1.5 Empowerment

• The power over ones life is a key component to
  self-esteem. Empowerment for students, is the
  better way of experiencing the ability to make a
  difference in her life and in the life of those
  around her. And their successes can also set up a
  good model for others to motivate their activity
  in teaching.

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3.2 students automatic manner in
independent learning

• Independent learning involves pupils taking the
  initiative in recognising learning requirements
  and undertaking activities to meet them. Online
  class provides students with a favorable
  environment to enable them to become more
  successfully independent learners. More
  importantly, mans subjective initiative plays a
  dominated role in language learning. Learners
  self-independent learning is a key factor in the
  succession of language learning.

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3.2 students automatic manner in
independent learning

• Only establishing the learning purpose, learners
  can set the learning goals based on their own
  level, and choose the learning contents demanding
  in the completion of their learning goals,
  finally realize their learning purposes.

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3.2 students automatic manner in
independent learning

• To the students, what is the right manner in the
  independent learning? The key point is that every
  student should set the clearly defined goals in
  learning to motivate their inner enthusiasm and
  interest. Then, students should cultivate the
  habit of independent learning, train the good
  ability of learning and emotion, attitude and
  values. It is very necessary for the authorities
  or teachers to offer them explicit instructions,
  keep them under supervisation, give them proper
  formative evaluation.

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3.3 establishing the internet suitable to
learners independent learning

• The Network-based instruction can help learners
  strengthen their linguistic skills by positively
  affecting their learning attitude and by helping
  them build self-instruction strategies and
  promote their self-confidence. The internet
  suitable to learners independent learning is the
  best way of achieving such a result.

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3.3 establishing the internet suitable to
learners independent learning

• First is to fully use the internet. Online class
  offers the students the rich resources and wide
  space, learner can freely choose the content and
  exercises wtih different levels to strenthen the
  understanding of the studied knowledge, and do
  the extensive reading about the background
  information of language.

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3.3 establishing the internet suitable to
learners independent learning

• Second, building a good system of supervisation
• Theoretically, the independent learning in online
  environment, learner can get rich reference
  materials and resources. Therefore, students
  easily attain the learning purpose only through
  choosing the suitable content, reasonable
  teaching methods. But in reality, there are some
  students lacking the ability of controlling
  themselves, of self-management and of firm
  perseverance in learning.

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3.3 establishing the internet suitable to
learners independent learning

• Therefore, the benefitable feedback should
  be built up in the net system to supervize and
  control the learning processs and comment the
  teaching result, and to help students form the
  high effective and individual learning way. On
  the one hand, student can check his or her own
  record through the net, and on other hand,
  teachers can also make the update score based on
  the record of exercises and the completion of
  self-test on Internet, finally set the total
  score.

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Summary

• The intergrated pattern of online and
  traditional foreign language teachings will bring
  out a more favorable environment for the learner,
  and set up the harmonious relationship between
  the two central ecological factors teacher and
  student. In the whole microecosystem of class
  learners subjective role and teachers leading
  role are fully brought out, and the two balances
  of the good teaching and learning manner are kept
  to optimize the ecological class.

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