The Effectiveness of Using CALL Environment on Reading Skills of English Learners

It is well-known that the computer and the Internet technology offers numerous advantages to English language teaching and learning. This paper aims to testify the efficiency of English language reading teaching in a university in Northeastern China as well as prove how to help college students promote their reading proficiency including their autonomous learning abilities by the effective use of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). A total of 120 Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners were randomly assigned two experimental and control classes. The teaching experiment lasted one semester (17 teaching weeks). The CET (College English Test (in China)) Band 4 Reading Test was adopted to test both classes as the pre- and post-test. The findings show that the experimental class had great achievements in terms of reading comprehension ability than the control class due to the use of CALL classroom and the student centered approach.