Influence of Computer-aided Instruction Model on Business English Writing Teaching Effect

• Main Author: Xuefeng Li
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kassel University Press 2018-03-01
• Series: International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
• Online Access: http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/8396

To guide the college students through the Computer-aided Technology (CAT) to make writings of business English (BE) in the new teaching model, resources and methods, this paper carries out the application of CAT in BE writing teach-ing. It analyses the disciplinary characteristics of BE writing, conducts the BE in-struction scheme design in the models of interactive teaching, writing teaching and inquiry teaching respectively on the basis of the learning theories such as humanism etc., and then develop the teaching contract experiment accordingly. Two parallel classes were randomly selected as objects of study, where the exper-imental class applied the Computer-aided Instruction (CAI) method, while the contrast class followed the traditional teaching methods; then the quantitative and qualitative analysis for one-semester teaching application was made by the after-experiment scores of BE writings in these two classes. The study in this paper verifies the positive role of CAT in BE writing, and also offer the effective guid-ance for improving the BE writing teaching level by CAT.