Abstract
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.
Highlights
Originated in the 1960s in America, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has become an important supplementary aid for foreign language learning in the past half-century; with the rapid development of computer network technology and popularization of computer software, CALL was promoting the reform of English teaching model [1]
CALL teaching model has been widely adopted in the English learning for the college students, esp. the E-learning platforms, including the American National English Corpus, British National English Corpus, khan Academy and Net-Ease Open-Course et., offer the convenient knowledge platforms for the English learning [4]
It is seen that the computer-aided instruction (CAI) can provide more favourable writing environment for business English (BE) writing, improving the learning interest and efficiency on the basis of interactive, collaborative and inquiry teaching model between the students and teachers; CALL can help the students to understand the text features of BE writing, i.e. to be clear, concise, appropriate, courteous, considerate, specific, honest, individualized, complete and graceful; Computer-aided Technology (CAT) better conforms to the pragmatic requirement of BE writing, making individualized expressions on the premise of maintaining the innate writing connotation
Summary
Originated in the 1960s in America, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has become an important supplementary aid for foreign language learning in the past half-century; with the rapid development of computer network technology and popularization of computer software, CALL was promoting the reform of English teaching model [1]. To study the English teaching at home, and verified the validity of multi-media aided technology by interviews and tests [3]. Despite the wider application of CAT in the English teaching, few professional studies were made for the CAT application into the professional English skill learning. It was the same for the BE writing: there were almost no effect-analysis research on the CAT function in the BE learning of the college students [5]
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