Visiting Researcher - Xiaohang Gai

Please joins us for a talk by Xiaohang Gai, a Visiting Researcher hosted by Dr. Prachi Srivastava.

"An Empirical Study on Effectiveness of Blended Learning in College English Teaching in China"

Abstract:
This study adopted an empirical approach to examine the effectiveness of blended learning in college English teaching. A one-year teaching experiment was conducted on students majoring in English at H University to explore whether blended learning is an effective way to improve students’ learning. Through data analysis, it can be found that blended learning participants held positive attitudes towards blended learning and their test scores are higher than the scores of the control group. The findings of the study indicate that blended learning could help students develop self-regulated and cooperative learning strategies, improve students' motivation to learn and improve students' academic performance.

Speaker Biography:
Xiaohang Gai is a lecturer at the College of Western Languages, Harbin Normal University, China. Her research interests focus on teacher education especially in the areas of educational technology in classroom teaching and learning, design of e-learning and multimedia, teacher change and social media in education. She also interested in second language acquisition, both TEFL and TESOL. Her current research interest is ICT implementation in education in China and is currently conducting research in this area.

Email: xgai@uwo.ca

Coffee and cookies will be served. Please RSVP to jheidenh@uwo.ca by Friday, February 14, 2020 if you would like to attend.