Hot Potatoes在外语教学中的应用

An Application of Hot Potatoes in Foreign Language Teaching

Hot Potatoes软件具有简便易用的特点，有助于辅助缺乏计算机技术基础的外语教师制作多种形式的网页式习题。在计算机辅助外语教学中应用Hot Potatoes能够帮助学生整合课堂与课外学习，巩固课堂所学并开展自主学习，同时还能够帮助学生适应新的四六级网考评估模式。

Hot Potatoes， with its convenient and easy-to-use features， can assist foreign language teachers without competence in computer/network technologies to produce various kinds of Web-based exercises. The application of Hot Potatoes in computer-assisted language teaching can help students to integrate classroom and extracurricular learning， reinforce what they have learned in the class and promote their autonomous learning. Meanwhile， the application of Hot Potatoes can also help the students to adapt to the new Web-based tests of CET4 and CET6.