Morality Cultivation in College English Reading and Writing Course Through Blended Learning

Zhao Haifang; Gu Ying

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Morality Cultivation in College English Reading and Writing Course Through Blended Learning

Zhao Haifang, Gu Ying

Published in Higher Education Research (Volume 8, Issue 1)

Received: 13 September 2022 Accepted: 5 October 2022 Published: 9 January 2023

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Abstract

In recent years, “blended learning” and “curriculum-based morality cultivation” have become two research hotspots in Chinese tertiary foreign language education field. Enhancing morality cultivation (also termed as moral education or ideological-political education by some researchers) is the goal for higher education achieved through the instruction of general and specialized college courses. Blended learning, an inevitable product of “Internet + Education” era, provides an effective approach for both teachers and students to reach the goal. For decades, English is learned more as a tool than a means to cultivate students’ humanistic values. Besides, there’s a serious insufficiency in the training of higher-order thinking skills in tertiary EFL classes. To tackle the two problems prevalent in today’s college English teaching, this paper, guided by two important official Guidelines, analyzes the connotation and ways of cultivating morality through language teaching. It also reviews the research on blended learning and blended language learning to show the potentials of this learning model. One specific teaching example from College English Reading and Writing Course is given to demonstrate the ways of imparting knowledge, developing skills and cultivating values by effectively integrating face-to-face and online learning. The study is expected to provide a feasible solution to the two problem mentioned above, deepen readers’ understanding of the two research hotspots and enable teachers of College English Courses in China to apply this model to their teaching practice.

Published in	Higher Education Research (Volume 8, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.her.20230801.11
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Morality Cultivation, College English Reading and Writing Course, Blended Learning, Teaching Practice

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Zhao Haifang

Foreign Language Department, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, China
Gu Ying

Foreign Language Department, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, China

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