Research on Online-offline Blended Teaching Mode of College English in Smart Education Context

Abstract

With the comprehensive advancement of digital teaching reform in higher education, traditional single offline college English teaching fails to satisfy diversified and individualized learning needs of contemporary undergraduates. Supported by intelligent teaching platforms and informationalized education technology, online-offline blended learning becomes a vital reform direction for university public English courses. As a compulsory foundational curriculum, college English focuses on improving students’ practical language competence and cross-cultural literacy, which calls for breakthroughs against fixed class schedules and rigid traditional teaching arrangements. Taking non-English major undergraduates from comprehensive universities as research objects, this paper constructs a three-phase closed-loop blended teaching framework including pre-class online preview, in-class offline interactive lessons and post-class online consolidation. Relying on a semester-long contrast teaching experiment covering 286 participants and questionnaire survey, the research compares learning initiative, self-directed learning competence, classroom engagement and academic performance between traditional lecturing and optimized blended teaching. Empirical data proves the proposed teaching framework remedies the obvious defects of cramming teaching, stimulates students’ learning enthusiasm and promotes balanced progress in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Teachers adopt learning big data from online platforms to carry out targeted tutoring and personalized instruction, upgrading the overall quality of college English teaching effectively. This study provides practical empirical evidence and optimization suggestions for college English curriculum innovation under smart education background.