Learning English through Internet is no longer a novelty for today’s English language learners, especially college students. In the recent decade, mobile electronic equipment has played an inevitable role in college students’ life. Instead of being locked in the traditional English classroom doing those boring training, young college students have already developed tremendous ways of new effective ways to learn English with the help of their mobile equipment and Internet. This paper investigates the new trend in college English learning in the internet era. Internet, breaking the limitation of time and space, provides different kinds of platform for college students to get the resources they need. This paper chooses undergraduate students in Wuhan as a sample, trying to analyze the new trend in college English learning, especially in self learning. Hope the result of this paper can provide some suggestions for college English language learners and the revolution in college English teaching.

Domestically, scholars have done a lot of researches on such topics. For example, Yan Jun, in article The revolution in English Teaching Based on mobile Internet published in Overseas English in 2017, analyses the basic features of internet learning and different advantages that mobile internet can bring to English teaching. What is more, Tao Hui, in her article Analysis on English Major’s Mobile English Learning on Smart Phone published in Overseas English in 2016, points that learning English through smart phone is very popular among college students. Besides, Miao Ning, in her article Study on the Learning Strategy of Mobile College English Learning Based on Wechat published in Instruction and Teacher professional Development in 2016, shows that apps like Wechat has become a popular learning method for college students. Yet some of these researches only focuses on college English teaching instead of self English Learning. And some of these researches pay too much attention only on one app or one mobile equipment. According to the researches that have been done so far, this paper wants to focus more on the different mobile equipment that can use internet, such as smart phones, laptops and pads.

Internationally, mobile English learning also has become a heated issue among scholars. Hsinhui Chung in his article,A Study of EFL College Students' Acceptence of Mobile Learning published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2015, points that college students’ behavioral intentions had high positive correlations with mobile devices’ compatibility, self-efficacy, perceived ease of use respectively. Yet the data is from different colleges from Taiwan. Further more, Mostafa Al-Emran, in article Investigating Attitudes towards the Use of Mobile Learning in Higher Education published in Computers in Human Behavior in 2016, indicates that M-learning can be one of the promising pedagogical technologies to be employed in the higher educational environments within the Arab Gulf countries. This study is done in Arab Gulf countries which have different social environment from that in China mainland. Besides, Houston Heflin, in the article Impact of Mobile Technology on Student attitudes, Engagement, and Learning published in Computers amp; Education in 2017. claims that mobile technology is associated with positive student perceptions of collaborative learning but with increased disengagement by students during class. In addition, the level of students' critical thinking was more closely associated with the tools used to construct written responses than with the collaborative learning environment style. In a nutshell, majority of the international studies on mobile English learning or mobile learning in college are not conducted in China mainland and always conclude graduate students. Yet this paper focuses on undergraduate students in Wuhan, China.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

The basic content of this study is college English learning caused by mobile internet technology. It comprises of four parts. Part one is the introduction of college mobile English learning. Part two is literature review and research design. Part three conducts data collection and analysis. Part four concludes the study.

The aim of this study is to figure out the new trend of college English learning in Internet era. To be more specific, what is the most effective learning method in their mind, what kind of equipment they prefer most, and which aspect they improve most through mobile English learning. According to all the data and analysis, the study can indicate what is the new trend in mobile English learning and give some suggestion to today’s college English teaching in China mainland.

This paper whose study population is undergraduate students in China uses educational investigation approach to do the whole research. With the sample of undergraduate students in universities in Wuhan, random searching questionnaire survey is adopted as the main method in this paper. The author compiles and hands out questionnaires to undergraduate students in different universities in Wuhan through internet because of the convenience and effectiveness of Internet. In the questionnaire, basic information such as age, major, gender is included. The majority questions are about mobile English learning habits, attitude and learning results. After collecting all the questionnaires, analysis will be done on these data to answer the questions raised at the beginning of the paper.