This paper explores the application of digital education in high school English teaching and proposes strategies to enhance the effectiveness of high school English teaching from the perspective of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) theory. The article begins by introducing the background and significance of digital education, followed by a literature review that analyzes the relationship between digital education and English teaching, as well as the connection between the ZPD theory and English teaching. The research design includes research questions, subjects, and processes, and through classroom observations, curriculum overviews, specific manifestations of digital teaching methods, and case studies, it deeply analyzes the current state of application of digital education in high school English teaching. The article also discusses the rationality of teaching objectives, the systematic nature of the teaching process, the richness of digital teaching resources, and post-class reflection, and puts forward relevant insights on teacher’s digital literacy, student factors, and the applicability of the ZPD theory. Finally, the article predicts how technological factors of educational digitization, teachers’ digital literacy, and student factors will affect future education, and taking the Sora artificial intelligence text-to-video generation model released by OpenAI on the early morning of February 16, 2024, as an example, it looks forward to the extensive application of digital education platforms and courses in future education.

Weiyang Li, Siyuan Ma, Zirong He. Strategies for Enhancing Senior High School English Teaching with Digital Education from the Perspective of the Theory of ZPD. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 8: 227-235. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.070838.

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