Development of an Information-Based Online Foreign Language Teaching Platform with ASP.NET

Abstract

The online teaching platform is a major application of information-based educa-tion. If adopted for foreign language teaching, the platform can greatly facilitate the utilization of network resources and enhance the students’ abilities in listen-ing, speaking, reading and writing. This paper develops an information-based online foreign language teaching platform with the aid of ASP.NET. The SQL was selected as the backend database and accessed via ADO.NET. Taking the browser/server (B/S) structure was adopted as the network architecture, the plat-form was programmed in C# and realized using Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) 2005. Through testing, the proposed platform was proved to achieve all expected functions and satisfy the demand of college English teaching in a safe and stable manner. The research findings promote the quality and informatization of English teaching.