Strategies of Cultivating Information Literacy for College English Teachers Based upon Information Technology

Abstract:

This paper aims to seek strategies to cultivate information literacy for college English teachers by means of information technology. After analyzing the connotation and significance of information literacy, a questionnaire about the current situation of college English teachers’ information literacy was conducted in three universities. According to the statistics, the paper comes up with five feasible strategies. Putting information awareness in the first place; establishing resource corpus for college English teachers; making good use of campus network; updating multimedia equipment and introducing technical training contribute to the development of information literacy for college English teachers.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 945-949)
• Pages: 3577-3580
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.945-949.3577
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Kun Wang, Yi Yang
• Keywords: Information Competence, Information Literacy, Information Technology (IT)

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