Frontiers in Educational Research, 2023, 6(23); doi: 10.25236/FER.2023.062321.
Yushan Zhou
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518172, China
With the continuous development of Internet technology, people are gradually deepening their exploration in online education field. Especially in recent years, the rising of massive open online courses (MOOCs) takes online learning to a new level, and online linguistics teaching course are also developing rapidly. But due to the characteristics of linguistics discipline and the presentation factors of online course design, the quality of online linguistics teaching causes people’s rethinking. Therein, how to optimize cognitive load in courseware design is a key of linguistics teaching. Based on cognitive load theory, this paper explores how to reduce learners’ internal and external cognitive load and appropriately increase cognitive load from optimizing teaching courseware, visual presentation method and knowledge relevance, so as to effectively control learners’ cognitive load and allow them to study a language efficiently online.
cognitive load; Linguistics Teaching; courseware design; CLT
Yushan Zhou. Study on Online Linguistics Teaching Courseware Design and Cognitive Load. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 23: 122-130. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.062321.
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