Effectiveness of Oral English Blended Teaching Supported by Digital Technology in Universities

Abstract

An empirical study of oral English blended teaching was conducted in a university. The experiment class, which was under the blended teaching mode supported by digital technology, made significant improvements in language accuracy and range, discourse length and coherence, as well as flexibility and appropriateness. On the other hand, there was no significant improvement in the scores of the control class. Through the analysis of results by means of independent t-test and paired sample t-test, we drew the following conclusions: the oral performance of university students from the experiment class significantly improved; there was remarkable difference in the total oral English scores between the experiment class and the control class; the improvement in the total score and the score of each module showed that blended teaching had significant effect on the improvement of university students’ oral English performance.