Research on College English Teachers’ Information Literacy in Information Environment

Abstract

The new technology revolution based on Internet, information and communication technology has triggered an upsurge of educational information in the world, including English learning and teaching. The improvement of teacher’s information literacy is the key to the success of the current educational informatization reform. From the perspectives of the concept of information literacy and the particularity of English teachers’ professional development, this paper makes a series of questionnaires. Survey results show that there are some problems in the present situation of English teachers’ information literacy. Therefore, this paper puts forward the following strategies to improve teachers’ information literacy: improving self-development consciousness, perfecting modern information technology training system, improving the integration ability of information technology and English classroom, and accelerating the development of English teaching resources platform.