The Application of Integrating Chinese Elements into College English Writing Blended Teaching Based on the Genre-based Approach
Abstract
Ideological and political education should be carried out with all kinds of courses in colleges and universities under the new circumstances. With the prominent features of instrumentalism and humanism, the implementation of moral education concerning Chinese elements in the course of college English writing teaching should be the responsibility for the teacher, which can combine the Genre-based Approach (GBA) as the teaching theory with the blended teaching that consists of online and offline learning as the teaching model, to thoroughly dig into the Chinese elements from teaching materials provided in the course and then integrate these Chinese elements into accomplishing writing tasks. In this article, the designed teaching cycle is mixed the learning cycle of the GBA with the blended teaching model for students to improve writing ability, enhance confidence in Chinese culture and realize all-round development. As a result, this paper will firstly review the theories of genres and its pedagogy, and introduce the concept and benefits of blended teaching model. Then by following the proposed teaching cycle, the application of integrating Chinese elements into teaching the genre of an argumenation as an example will be discussed in detail.References
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