MOOC 与传统教学对比研究——以少数民族大学生英语 口语交际能力培养为例 AcknowledgementsMy heartfelt gratitude should go to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. A special acknowledgement should be shown to my supervisor Ms. Pan Xin, who gave me kind encouragement and useful instructions all through my writing. I also would like to extend my gratitude to all of my teachers and students who helped me in my process of writing this paper.Finally, I wish to extend my thanks to Dr. Zhang Shuai, who supplied me with reference materials of great value.iAbstractRecently, MOOC has played a vital role in many fields like classroom learning, vocational training or public education by its convenience, high-efficiency and flexibility. Yet as for those far-remote regions in our country where MOOC is still blank, the lack of high-quality educational resources has always been precluding the improvement of local education. The traditional teaching methods adopted by most English language teachers for a long time also cannot meet the social demands. Meanwhile, English has become the key language for spreading ideas and exchanging information since the process of globalization grew deeper throughout the world. However, minority college students in Yunnan, on account of a series factors attributing to their local lingual or social environment, would meet a host of problems that impede the advancement of their English oral competency. Therefore, deficiencies in traditional education and minority college students’ characters would make it harder to improve their English oral competency.Based on this situation, this study will analyze the possibilities of how to improve English oral competency through questionnaire,...
