Construction of Smart Classroom Model for English Learning in the Internet-Based Era: A Multimodal Perspective

The rapid development of information technology is gradually promoting the formation of the Internet-based language learning ecology. However, the current teaching mode with teachers playing the dominant role in most colleges and universities in China is relatively lagging behind, which has led to time-consuming and inefficient English teaching that emphasizes input and ignores output. In view of this situation, it is imperative to construct and implement a multi-faceted, human-computer interactive smart classroom for English learning under the theoretical framework of multimodal discourse. The author selected the third-year students of the Business English major (enrolled in 2019) from a university in Anhui Province as the research objects, with Business English Translation as the experimental course, carried out the teaching experiment of pre-test/post-test non-equivalent groups design, and reached the following research conclusion: Multimodal smart classroom model helps to enhance students’ autonomous learning ability on web-based platforms, facilitate the transformation of teachers’ classroom roles and identities, and ultimately promote the effective occurrence of English learning activities.