Hong Tang, Baokun Gu, Fuchang Zhang, Yuehua Gong, Guangyuan Li, Jinrong Qi, Qian Wang, Lingyi Zhao

Hong Tang

May 30, 2025

FLT (foreign language teachers) in private higher vocational colleges in Yunnan Province, Connotation of digital competency, Development status, Development dilemma and improvement strategy.

Under the background of digital transformation of education, the development of vocational education is paid more and more attention, and teachers who in vocational school play a pivotal role in promoting the development of vocational education, especially FLT (foreign language teachers). Because they teach public English courses of the whole school, it is of great significance to improve the digital competency of them. This study takes 102 foreign language teachers in private higher vocational colleges as the research objects, the literature analysis is used to understand the connotation of teachers’ digital competency, questionnaire and interview are applied to understand the current situation, development dilemma. The improvement strategies of teachers’ digital competency were put forward from digital science knowledge, digital application ability, digital concept, digital personality traits and other factors.

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