E-LEARNING-BASED BLENDED FLT DURING THE EPIDEMIC CRISIS
People's Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
About this paper:
Conference name: 16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 7-8 March, 2022
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
The sudden COVID-19 epidemic had a considerable impact on traditional education, and the e-learning education model was immediately thrust onto the "mainstream" stage of education. Compared to traditional education, the advantages of online education are evident, such as overcoming time and space constraints and sharing quality educational resources. Colleges and universities, faculty, and students benefit from the advantages of online education but also struggle with the challenges that online education brings: uneven distribution of faculty, problems with educational technology, poor learning atmosphere, lack of classroom supervision that affects students' learning efficiency, too many resources, and difficulty for students to focus.
As for foreign language teaching (FLT), online foreign language teaching also transcends the boundaries of time and space and strengthens students' autonomous learning, inquiry learning, collaborative learning, and practical application skills. With the arrival of the post-epidemic era, the advantages of traditional foreign language teaching are becoming more evident. Teacher leadership and teacher-student interaction in traditional foreign language classrooms cannot be replaced by online instruction. Traditional classroom teaching has tremendous advantages in knowledge transfer, sociability, and interaction.
The article compares traditional foreign language teaching with online foreign language teaching. It proposes that the e-learning foreign language teaching model based on advanced network technology can be organically combined with the traditional foreign language teaching model and complement each other. It can form a hybrid foreign language teaching model to maximize the integration of the two, and the innovative one helps in foreign language teaching.
The authors make the following suggestions for blended foreign language teaching through questionnaire surveys, data research, and other forms:
- Integrate teacher and technical resources;
- Cultivate new teaching and learning habits that adapt to the characteristics of online foreign language instruction;
- Build a unified online education platform;
- Gradually develop a blended teaching model with optional foreign language courses as a pilot project;
- Gradually combine offline and online education;
- Teachers and students "co-lead" learning tasks.
This article refers to integrating traditional and online foreign language teaching, and the analysis shows that blended foreign language teaching has a strong implementation. Blended foreign language teaching can significantly stimulate students' potential for active learning, activate the classroom atmosphere, and improve the quality of teachers' teaching. Finally, a blended foreign language teaching model based on e-learning has been developed.
It is an open and innovative pedagogical concept and model, which is of great significance for better teaching resources, promoting the quality of foreign language teaching, and improving students' foreign language learning ability.Keywords:
e-learning, blended foreign language teaching, traditional education, online education.