大数据时代的到来使得教育发生一场全新的变革,大学英语教学不再是传统的单一统一的模式,教学目标、教学对象、教学资源、教学内容、教学形式、教学方法、教学评价呈现出复杂多元化的特点。本文从大数据时代给大学英语教学带来的冲击入手,分析了大学英语教师在大数据时代面临的挑战,并提出了大学英语教师在大数据时代职业发展的路径。在大数据时代,大学英语教师在大数据相关知识的整合、教师职能与角色的转变、学生主体个性化发展与变化、新型教学设计和教学评价等方面面临着极大的挑战。为了适应大数据时代大学英语教学改革的趋势,从而实现良好的教师职业发展,大学英语教师应该在教育哲学思想、英语实践技能、英语教育技术、英语学科应用等方面做好长足的准备,要加强大数据整合能力的培养以适应个性化教学的需求、改进课堂教学模式和方法以切实提高学生的英语应用能力、提前做好自我准备以适应大学英语课程的分化转型、参加相关培训和研修以提高自身教学和科研水平。

With the approaching of the age of big data, education is going through a brandnew reform, and college English teaching will no longer take the traditional onefold and coincident mode. Teaching aims, teaching objects, teaching resources, teaching contents, teaching forms, teaching methods, and teaching assessments embod complicated and pluralistic characteristics. Beginning with the introduction of great impact of big data on college English teaching, this papers analyzes the challenges and puts forward ideas for college English teachers career development in the age of big data. College English teachers are confronted with big challenges in the aspects of integration of big data knowledge, conversion of teacher’s function and role, change of students, teaching planning and evaluation. In order to be adapted to such development of college English teaching and to achieve good career development, college English teachers must be prepared in advance in education philosophy, English practice skill, English education technology, English discipline application. They should enhance the ability to integrate big data to meet the need of individualized teaching, amend classroom teaching modes and methods to improve students’ English application ability, prepare in advance for the transformation of college English course, and get involved in trainings to improve teaching and research capabilities.