Design and Implementation of a Student-centered English Reading Course Within a Blended-learning Framework

Haifang Zhao

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Design and Implementation of a Student-centered English Reading Course Within a Blended-learning Framework

Haifang Zhao

Published in Science Innovation (Volume 9, Issue 6)

Received: 28 October 2021 Accepted: 19 November 2021 Published: 24 November 2021

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With the rapid development of the Internet and information technology, the traditional three-centered teaching model (focusing on textbook, teacher and classroom ) can no long meets the learning and development needs of today’s college students, the so-called “digital natives” born in the 21^th century, thus calling for the urgent reform and innovation in tertiary education. The belief of student-centeredness, built on a large body of scientific research, has quickly gained recognition by both colleges and societies around the world. Guided by the “three-new-centers” belief (focusing on students’ development, students’ learning and learning outcomes ), this paper presents a blended-learning framework based on online platform learning and offline classroom teaching which is aimed at solving student’s difficulties. This paper also describes a one-term teaching practice of College English Reading in two undergraduate non-English-major classes of strikingly different English proficiency. The end-of-term evaluation from teachers’ reflection and students’ questionnaire reveals very positive feedback on the new way of teaching and learning and a high level of student engagement, devotion to learning and class satisfaction. This paper also provides suggestions on further improvement of this model in terms of specific course design and teacher development.

Published in	Science Innovation (Volume 9, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.si.20210906.15
Page(s)	244-247
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Student-centeredness, College English Reading, Blended-learning Framework, Design, Teaching Practice

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Foreign Language Department, School of Basic Education, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, China

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