Establishing Self –Access with WALL in Chinese Tertiary Education

摘要

Self-access language learning (SALL) and web-assisted language learning (WALL) have beenrnattracting increasing attention from teachers, students and institutions in Chinese tertiary education.rnHowever, there are wide gaps between theoretical perspectives of SALL and empirical study of WALL. Thisrnpaper tries to bridge the gaps and explore the merits of WALL by presenting references to relevant literature and research and reporting a two-semester experiment on integrating WALL in teaching intensive reading at graduate level in BIT. The results show that compared with a teacher-dominated approach, SALL can be promoted with WALL in enhancing students’ productive skills, satisfying their individual needs, arousing their interest in learning English and motivating their autonomous learning.