Towards a Principled Approach to Blended Learning: Investigating Moodle-Based English-Medium Classes for Chinese University Students

doi:10.4208/itl.20210003

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题名	Towards a Principled Approach to Blended Learning: Investigating Moodle-Based English-Medium Classes for Chinese University Students
作者	Yan, Edith M. Y.; Qin, Chuan
发表日期	2021
发表期刊	Innovative Teaching and Learning
ISSN/eISSN	2709-2917
卷号	3 期号:1 页码:36-68
摘要	This study investigated the utilization of various types of Moodle course materials (including resources and activities) by 190 Chinese students from five classes of an English-medium instruction (EMI) course, their views regarding the utilization, and their academic achievements. It aimed at finding out the types of Moodle course materials positively associated with students' learning achievements, and identifying the specific features and practices with the course materials that might contribute to the learning effectiveness. Data were collected from an in-class survey, focus group interviews, and retrieval of Moodle activity logs and grade reports. Of the types of Moodle course materials that were found to have students' access frequencies significantly correlated with their course total scores, comments from focus-group data that were related to the effective utilization were analysed using an inductive approach. Then the emergent themes were mapped on to the headings ''appropriate resources and tools," "integrative multimodal tasks," and "sustainability beliefs and practices" for establishing guiding principles for designing blended-learning content courses for second/foreign language learners. This article suggests that EMI course instructors consider offering learning scaffolding through various means and providing supports when students are interacting with the learning management system, in particular when they are dealing with assessments.
关键词	learning management system English medium instruction post-secondary education foreign language learner teaching/leaming strategies
DOI	10.4208/itl.20210003
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语种	英语English
引用统计	被引频次[WOS]：0 [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://repository.uic.edu.cn/handle/39GCC9TT/8539
专题	人文社科学院
作者单位	Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, BNU-HKBU United International College
第一作者单位	北师香港浸会大学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yan, Edith M. Y.,Qin, Chuan. Towards a Principled Approach to Blended Learning: Investigating Moodle-Based English-Medium Classes for Chinese University Students[J]. Innovative Teaching and Learning, 2021, 3(1): 36-68.
APA	Yan, Edith M. Y., & Qin, Chuan. (2021). Towards a Principled Approach to Blended Learning: Investigating Moodle-Based English-Medium Classes for Chinese University Students. Innovative Teaching and Learning, 3(1), 36-68.
MLA	Yan, Edith M. Y.,et al."Towards a Principled Approach to Blended Learning: Investigating Moodle-Based English-Medium Classes for Chinese University Students". Innovative Teaching and Learning 3.1(2021): 36-68.