Analysis on the Characteristics of Online English Contests and Its Backwash Effect

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.028How to use a DOI?

Keywords

online English contest, contest characteristics, backwash effect

Abstract

During the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus pneumonia) epidemic, an educational technology company in Guangzhou, Guangzhou Foreign Language Association and Guangdong higher vocational colleges jointly organized three online English skill contests of “English Reading Aloud”, “English Writing” and “English Morning Reading” for students of higher vocational colleges in Guangdong Province one after another. This article briefly describes the three online competitions, summarizes their common characteristics in terms of outstanding timeliness, high student autonomy, intelligent evaluation, intelligent statistics, etc., and focuses on the analysis of the backwash effects of online English contests on teachers’ optimization of contest plans and tutoring plans, improvement of tutoring models, enhancement of contest tutoring ability, students’ motivation to participate in contests, development of independent competition preparation strategies, and improvement of competition preparation efficiency, so as to provide new ideas and enlightenment for vocational English teacher contest tutoring and student contest training against the background of information technology.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weirong Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - Analysis on the Characteristics of Online English Contests and Its Backwash Effect
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 138
EP  - 143
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.028
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.028
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