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1、AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF BLENDED TEACHING MODEL IN UNIVERSITY ENGLISH TEACHINGShenying JIANG, Danli LICollege of Foreign Languages Shenyang Aerospace UniversityShenyang Liaoning China 110136 Email:Abstract: It has been seven years since Education Ministry issued College English Curriculum Trail Require
2、ments. It is of manifest necessity to conduct a survey about the effectiveness application under blended teaching model in common university. This paper adopts consecutive three years empirical study of blended teaching model and analyzes the data from both English teachers and students viewpoint. T
3、hen it discovers some problems and proposes corresponding suggestions with the purpose to facilitate the improvement of the English teaching in universities.Keywords: Blended teaching model; English teaching; Empirical studyI. INTRODUCTIONWith the deeper development of the education reform In 2004 t
4、he Education Ministry issued College English Curriculum Requirements (For Trial Implementation) and pointed out “The new model should be built on modern information technology, particularly network technology, so that English language teaching will be, to a certain extent, free from the constraints
5、of time or place and geared towards students individualized and autonomous learning.” In this requirement, it showed that new teaching model required college English teachers to combine regular teaching with multimedia teaching. In addition, they should link students self-learning with their guide.
6、Furthermore they must pay more attention to not only what they taught but also how they taught. Under this model the students can improve their English level in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. The topic of this thesis is chosen. But whether the hardware of colleges and student
7、s skills to use the internet and learning styles are appropriate to carry out blended learning remains unanswered. If all these conditions are good, how do teachers efficiently carry out their blended teaching? What kinds of roles do teachers play? This paper is based on blended teaching model and a
8、nalyze datum through questionnaire. Then it tries to find some problems and give some suggestions in order that college English teaching in China is going smoothly.II. RESEARCH DESIGNAlthough blended teaching is a new pattern, It has aroused the attention at home and abroad, because it is in accorda
9、nce with the current learning paradigm shift (from teacher-centered to student-centered change). Some foreign researchers have done researches in the field of higher education and enterprise training. In China it was Kekang He (2004a,b) who firstly proposed it in Journal of China Educational Technol
10、ogy. He wrote all article about the new development of education technology from the perspective of blended learning. He pointed out that blended learning was not a new term, but its new implication was the mark of the development of education technology, the change of viewpoints of the education te
11、chnology in learning style, teaching ideas and concept. He still pointed out that the development of the current education technology marked by blended learning first began in the change of the teaching concept and educating thoughtsSince then the colleges and universities have changed a lot in Engl
12、ish teaching. It is necessary to survey the present situation of the application under blended teaching model in common college and university. The concrete questions of the survey are as follows:What is the attitude of common college English teachers and students towards blended teaching?How is ble
13、nded teaching model applied?How is the overall effect of teaching under blended teaching?Teachers participating in this study (in July, 2010) are 30 comprehensive English teachers who come from Shenyang Aerospace University and teach freshman and sophomore. The age of them is from 28 to 55. Their ti
14、tles of a technical post are composed of 1 professor, 11 vice professors and 18 lecturers. The results of the 30 questionnaires are effective. Besides, there was the feedback of 1221, 1342, 1538 questionnaire in year 2008, 2009, and 2010 from freshmen in Shenyang Aerospace University. This paper ana
15、lyzes the empirical data from both English teachers and students standing point.III. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEACHERS FEEDBACKA. Teachers Attitudes to Blended Teaching ModelWhen the teachers were asked to answer their attitude to blended teaching model, 70% of them are positive (approved great
16、ly and 26.66% approved). They all agreed that bended teaching model were good for the students. It could helpful for students to develop their ability in learning English. Teachers Ability to Use Computer and InternetIt is necessary to survey English teachers ability to use computer and internet in modern agesSurvey showed 86.66% of English teachers used compute
