Research on the Application of Information Technology Combined

with PDCA Cycle in English Teaching

Qingli Meng

Shandong Province, Tai'an City, Taishan University, Tai'an City, Shandong Province, 271000, China

Keywords: Information Technology, PDCA Cycle, Multi-Media, English Teaching, Feasibility.

Abstract: In the present information age, the powerful support and promotion role of information technology for many

industries has been recognized by the public. In education, information technology has played a critical role.

Information technology has been an effective way to optimize the teaching structure and promote the

cultivation of innovative talents. The marriage of English teaching and information technology has become

the highlight of education today. The change of teaching methods aims at improving the teaching quality.

Integrating the idea of PDCA quality management, carrying out continuous and feasible evaluation and

improvement on the application of information technology in English teaching could finally achieve the

improvement of teaching quality. Based on the teaching experience, this paper takes the new model English

course as an example to explore the feasibility of applying information technology and PDCA to English.

1 INTRODUCTION

Some students' English foundation is relatively

weak, and the teaching method adopted by the

teachers is relatively simple. It is not easy for

students to form a strong interest in English, and

there is not much interaction between students and

teachers in the classroom teaching process. The

improvement of teaching quality has been a difficult

problem for a long time. Under the background of

the new curriculum standard, the continuous

deepening of teaching reform makes the above

problems more obvious, and the innovation of

teaching mode and the optimization of teaching

methods become more urgent.

2 THEORETICAL STUDY

RELATED TO INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY AND PDCA

CYCLE

2.1 Information Technology

Introduction to information technology. Information

technology is also called technology, which is the

knowledge and ability to collect, analyze, process

and use information. It covers many technologies,

including communication, multimedia and so on.

The integration of information technology and

English teaching, that is, the application of

information technology to English teaching, is to use

information technology with computers and

networks as the core as an auxiliary tool to combine

English teaching with computer technology, making

it the main means of learning for students.

2.2 PDCA Cycle

The meaning of PDCA and the feasibility of its

application. PDCA, also called Deming ring, was

proposed by Americans. It belongs to the procedure

that quality management needs to follow. The whole

process of quality management activities, that is, the

process of determining the quality plan and

achieving it by the organization This process is

continuously operated according to the PDCA cycle.

PDCA is an abbreviation, where P is the

abbreviation of plan, D is the abbreviation of do, C

is the abbreviation of check, and A is the

abbreviation of action. Plan generally refers to the

determination of the scheme, objectives and the

practical scheme of activities. Do refers to actual

execution. Check refers to summarizing the

implementation results, determining the effects and

finding problems. Action generally refers to

Meng, Q.

Research on the Application of Information Technology Combined with PDCA Cycle in English Teaching.

DOI: 10.5220/0011909300003613

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adjusting the check, carefully recording what is

correct and summarizing what is wrong, finding the

crux of the problem, and correcting it in the next

cycle. PDCA is widely used, which is essentially a

theoretical abstraction (Cheng 2022).

2.3 The Application of Information

Technology and PDCA Cycle in

English Teaching

The significance of information technology fusion

PDCA cycle in teaching. A teacher's job is like a

designer. To design the communication between

teaching content and teaching, we should also design

the way to use teaching resources scientifically, and

set up the feedback channel of teaching effect, so as

to optimize the teaching plan. Compared with the

teaching of other subjects, English should pay more

attention to interaction. In addition to teachers and

students, students also need to interact. In other

words, interaction faces many demands, including

timeliness and multi-level. Through information

technology, we can create more ways to achieve, but

how to make good use of this technology? This

paper integrates PDCA management ideas to escort

the improvement of English teaching effect.

Figure 1: PDCA cycle mode

3 MODEL DESIGN OF ENGLISH

TEACHING SYSTEM BASED

ON INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY

The IT-based teaching system is a multi-functional

integrated application system that realizes

networking and informatization of IT daily teaching

behaviors, realizes learning across time and space,

and it provides a convenient and efficient interaction

platform for teachers and students. The system is

designed with two roles according to the users, one

is the teaching management platform for teachers

and the other is the learning platform for students.

The former is mainly for teachers to use the

computer network for teaching, so as to realize the

sharing of information resources and information

resources; the latter is mainly for students to use the

computer network for independent learning in the

learning process (Dan 2021).

Although the system has different operation

privileges for users with different identities, their

application functions are interdependent and

inseparable, and are classified from the perspective

of application functions, which contain the main

functional modules as shown in Figure 2.

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Figure 2: The main functional module design of teaching

system

4 EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

PDCA cycle is an effective teaching mode, which

has great practicability. Combining it with

information technology and applying it in teaching

can promote the teaching effect. However, in the

specific application, we should not only implement

the work of relevant links, but also implement the

connection between processes to ensure that the

cycle can be generated. English is a key course,

which has a great influence on the future

development of students (Song 2021). Therefore, the

application of PDCA teaching mode in teaching and

the combination with information technology is

powerful measures to comply with teaching reform,

and have a far-reaching impact on the optimization

of education quality and the development of

education industry.

4.1 Experimental Design

Before the implementation of teaching activities,

having effective plans provides a good direction for

teaching. 1) Evaluation of teaching objects. If we

want to teach students in accordance with their

aptitude, we should implement the evaluation of

students' relevant conditions, including cultural

quality and learning ability. Some students in

English teaching have a relatively weak English

foundation. Compared with their actual majors,

English classes are more distant with daily life and

their learning enthusiasm is lower. In addition, the

teaching methods in the past were relatively boring,

which led to exclusion in learning. Figure 3 shows

the distribution proportion of students' English

scores in a survey. 2) Selection of teaching

materials. There are many majors in the school, and

there are also many corresponding English classes,

such as auto repair and hotel. In this regard, it is

necessary to implement a good plan in combination

with the professional situation of the class. Even if

the same textbook is used, the chapters learned

should be different. Therefore, in the plan link, we

should master the professional information of the

class. In view of the similarities and emphases of

various majors in teaching, for example, the teaching

contents of cooking and hotel majors have similar

needs in the food theme, but the housing theme does

not need to be developed in the cooking class. 3)

Courseware and classroom design. For the relatively

common situation, that is, the introduction of new

courses, there may be a large amount of information

at this time. To reduce learning resistance, intuitive

teaching methods should be adopted. Intuitively

speaking, it means that you can see and touch the

course contents through videos and pictures. From

the beginning, multimedia tools are combined in the

courseware setting, such as Authorware software.

Through its guidance and design, courseware with

prominent points and embedded videos and pictures

can be made (Xie 2022). This courseware can also

add interactive scenes, so that students can receive

information at multiple levels in class.

Figure 3: Distribution proportion of students' English

scores

4.2 Experimental Procedure

This link is the process of achieving the pre class

planning link. 1) During class explanation. With the

help of multimedia, we can carry more information,

turn language learning into animation appreciation,

and get twice the result with half the effort. For

example, when explaining the front desk service of

the hotel, you can show the dialogue of the reception

by videos, concretize the abstract knowledge, and

avoid forming a resistance to learning. 2) During the

after class guidance, Teachers can guide them to

preview, consolidate and expand with the help of

Internet knowledge in combination with specific

22,84%

9,64%

67,01%

0,51%

80-100 100-120 Below80 Above120

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needs, such as downloading learning software from

the Internet to enable them to have sufficient

learning resources (Chen 2021). For example,

downloading English songs and popular movies, and

frequently used English short sentences can not only

stimulate their enthusiasm for learning grammar, but

also help consolidate their learning. For example,

through e-mail to carry out cultural exchanges with

foreign friends, improve students' communication

awareness and ability. Figure 4 shows the statistics

of students' online purposes.

Figure 4: Statistics of students' online motivations

4.3 Experimental Results and Data

Analysis

1) Check stage. At the end of the class, students can

not only complete the process of collecting timely

classroom feedback, but also master the key points.

This stage often uses the functions in the slide, that

is, custom actions, to effectively complete a question

and answer.

2) Action stage. This link is to process the

information fed back from the inspection link, affirm

the ideal feedback, analyze the actual problems in

the next cycle and determine and implement the

actual improvement plan for the ones that have not

received considerable response.

Empirical analysis: PDCA cycle is a systematic

project mode that embodies the management law

and introduces the feedback principle in the process

of all-round quality management. It belongs to the

cycle system of standardization and rationalization

of quality management. It was first proposed by

American experts and involves many stages and

steps. Table 1 shows the four stages and eight steps

of the PDCA cycle. PDCA cycle = plan + do +

check + action is now vigorously promoted in

enterprise quality management. In recent years,

PDCA cycle mode has been used for reference and

combined with information technology in English

teaching, achieving ideal results. Details are as

follows: (1) Teaching object. Teaching objects: 200

students of grade 2022 in a school were randomly

divided into two groups, one is the experimental

group (Class A) and the other is the control group

(class B). (2) Method. The control group adopts the

past teaching mode to carry out teaching and

assessment, that is, teaching, practice and

assessment. The experimental group was taught

according to PDCA mode.1) Analyzing the current

situation, finding problems and making plans (P).

The teaching and research office and teachers

participated in the research of problems in teaching

and learned that students' initiative in learning

English was low and their grades were lower than

those of other subjects. According to the

questionnaire, the factors leading to these problems

are as follows: Insufficient teaching ability and

lesson preparation time. Insufficient teacher training

and incentive mechanism. Some students do not pay

attention to English, and their learning autonomy is

poor. The curriculum design is not scientific enough,

and the supporting teaching materials are not in

place. Plato conducted in-depth analysis on these

problems, as shown in Figure 5. According to the

information contained in the figure, the proportion

of teaching ability is about 3%, the proportion of

teacher training is about 7%, the proportion of lesson

preparation time is about 10%, the proportion of

teacher motivation is about 13%, the proportion of

students who do not pay attention to it is about 14%,

the proportion of low learning autonomy is about

16%, the proportion of imperfect curriculum design

is about 18%, and the proportion of insufficient

supporting materials is about 19%, The cumulative

percentage is 100%.

Table 1: 4 stages and 8 steps of PDCA cycle

P stage

1. Investigate and observe, study the situation of students and find problems;

2. Analyze the causes of influence based on the problems;

3. Find out the reasons that affect learning;

4. Determine

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activities

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7. Summarize according to the inspection and standardize the successful experience;

8. Stud

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5,08%

100%

44,16%

1,02%

100%

49,24%

22,84%

0,00%

20,00%

40,00%

60,00%

80,00%

100,00%

120,00%

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Figure 5: The problems in Teaching of Plato

In view of the above problems, we should

improve and set up the constituent elements of the

English teaching process, and carefully formulate

the teaching plan. First, the evaluation of teaching

objects. Before formal English teaching, carry out

all-round analysis and measurement of students'

relevant conditions, including their acceptance

ability and style of study. Second, the selection of

teaching materials. In combination with the training

objectives and the actual situation of students, the

corresponding textbooks were selected and the

outline was defined. Third, the training and selection

of teaching. First of all, the teaching and research

office arranges teachers to study, delves into

textbooks, formulates classroom, classroom and

chapter objectives, and deeply understands the

connotation and quality requirements in combination

with the outline, training requirements and basic

information of English teachers in the school (see

Figure 6). Secondly, teachers are arranged to give

trial lectures, and then teachers are selected

according to the results of the trial lectures. Finally,

organize observation teaching and skill competitions

to strengthen the teaching skills of educators. Fourth,

clarify the teaching plan. Implementing the teaching

plan and preparing the class is the beginning of

PDCA cycle. Teachers prepare lessons in

combination with the syllabus and students' reality,

assess the results of lesson preparation through the

teaching and research office, and then arrange

collective lesson preparation to finally produce a

teaching plan, which involves many elements, such

as teaching objectives, focuses and methods.

Figure 6: Basic information of English teachers

According to the plan, implement the teaching

process and achieve the goal. In the specific

implementation, according to various text types, the

situational teaching method is used as a guide, and

then combined with the actual content of the text,

the subject and cultural knowledge are infiltrated, so

as to mobilize students' enthusiasm for learning and

guide their active thinking. And according to the

target teaching method, gradually achieve the

relevant teaching content. 3) Check. After

implementing the scheme, check the completion

status of the goal and correct the deviation at the

first time. According to the relevant teaching theory,

carry out the measurement of learning achievements

and give feedback on the completion of learning

objectives in an all-round way. The actual practice

is: for diagnostic evaluation, it is carried out in the

classroom introduction link; for productive

evaluation, various methods are adopted in teaching,

including questions, reports and demonstrations;

summary evaluation is carried out in the middle and

end of teaching. In addition, based on collective

lesson preparation and lesson evaluation, teachers'

teaching methods and achievements are fed back at

the first time. 4) Action. Carefully study and deal

with all the information obtained from the inspection

link, affirm the good experience, generate personal

fixed teaching methods and models, and popularize

and apply them in future teaching. In view of the

shortcomings, we will analyze and determine the

relevant rectification measures in depth, and

implement them in determining the teaching plan

when we enter the next cycle [Hu 2021].

(3) Effect. Table 2 shows the comparison

between the English test results of group A and

group B students and the English band-pass test

results. According to the information contained in

the table, the number of students in class A is 150,

the mid-term test compliance rate is between 77.8%

and 82.8%, the final test compliance rate is between

82.85% and 88.35%, and the band-pass test

compliance rate is 100%. The number of students in

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class B is also 150, the rate of reaching the standard

in the mid-term examination is between 66.2% and

70.8%, the rate of reaching the standard in the final

examination is between 68.1% and 73.1%, and the

rate of passing the grade examination is 80%. (4)

Experience. The application of information

technology combined with PDCA theory in English

teaching is characterized by the management of

teaching with the help of this theory, so that all links

in teaching can be carried out comprehensively

according to the four stages, that is, plan, implement,

check and process, which highlights the integrity

and uninterrupted nature of the teaching process. It

makes the teaching work more reasonable and

standard, and avoids the arbitrariness and blindness

of teaching.

Table 2: Comparison of English test and passing test results of students in group A and B of grade 2022 in a school

Experimental

teaching object

Number

Passing rate of

midterm

examination

(

)

Pass rate of final

examination (%)

Passing rate of CET

(%)

Test group (shift a) 150 people 80.3±2.5% 85.6±2.75% 100%

150 people 68.5±2.3% 70.6±2.5% 80%

5 CONCLUSIONS

For the combination of information technology and

PDCA, that is, to enrich teaching methods and

broaden teaching ideas through this technology. It is

carried out comprehensively according to the stages

of PDCA, including planning, implementation,

inspection and adjustment, so as to avoid blindness

and arbitrariness in teaching, so that the

improvement of teaching effect can be followed by

rules, and English teaching can truly create benefits

for students.

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