Blended-Teaching Model in Business English Teaching

With the rapid development of network technology, blended-learning & teaching are new ways to study and teach in new era. This method integrates various resources both online and offline, extending the teaching and learning time and achieving different ways for learners of different learning levels. blended learning & teaching means changes in both teacher’s and student’s roles. Teacher’s part of imparting knowledge is reduced and their supporting service for students’ group work is raised up instead. And for students, they are supposed to switch various scenarios in order to avoid the loneliness and confusion caused by long-time online learning. Blended teaching process is mainly divided into three stages: pre-class, in-class, and after-class. During the process, teachers could publish such text-related materials as PPT, video, passages on the website or study APP. And through website of APP, students could reflect their confusions about the text and teachers will respond timely in class or after class. The combination of traditional assessment and online assessment, self-assessment and teacher assessment should help teachers and students more systematically recognize the achievements and shortcomings in the process of learning 1. Literature Review 1.1 Blended-Learning & Blended-Teaching Blended-learning is a kind of learning method formed by people's deep reflection on traditional classroom teaching and online learning. This learning method integrates various resources and applies them reasonably in order to promote teaching and learning. Combining the traditional advantages of classroom teaching and online learning, this method not only plays the guiding role of teachers but also students' learning subject. To a certain extent, the teaching elements are optimized and selected, and various teaching methods, modes, strategies, media, and techniques are skillfully applied according to the needs of teaching. Blended-learning achieves different ways for learners of different learning levels, allowing learners to choose their own learning content so that students can achieve their own needs and better implement personalized teaching. The definition of blended-teaching is described differently. Foreign scholars believe that it should be defined from teachers, learners, teaching design and teaching managers: for teachers or teaching designers, the assignable equipment, tools, media technology and teaching materials are optimized to achieve teaching objectives; for the learner, it is to match the available media technology, tools, and teaching materials with their existing knowledge structure and learning style, and to make choices to help them achieve their learning goals. For the teaching managers, it is to organize and distribute the valuable equipment according to the actual needs to achieve the teaching goal. Such valuable equipment includes computers, virtual classrooms, non-traditional classrooms, teaching guides, and the like. 1.2 The Status Quo of Business English Teaching 1.2.1To Improve the Teaching Mode The Business English aims to cultivate a solid foundation of English for students. And students are supposed to obtain an international perspective and humanistic qualities, a master of linguistics, economics, management, law (international commercial law) and other relevant basic theories and knowledge. Students are to be familiar with the rules and practices of international business, having the business practice ability, cross-cultural communication ability, thinking and innovation ability, independent learning ability. Students can engage in international business work. As a special4th International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology and Social Science (MMETSS 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 351