Influence of computer-aided instruction model on business english writing teaching effect

Abstract

To guide the college students through the Computer-aided Technology (CAT) to make writings of business English (BE) in the new teaching model, resources and methods, this paper carries out the application of CAT in BE writing teaching. It analyses the disciplinary characteristics of BE writing, conducts the BE instruction scheme design in the models of interactive teaching, writing teaching and inquiry teaching respectively on the basis of the learning theories such as humanism etc., and then develop the teaching contract experiment accordingly. Two parallel classes were randomly selected as objects of study, where the experimental class applied the Computer-aided Instruction (CAI) method, while the contrast class followed the traditional teaching methods; then the quantitative and qualitative analysis for one-semester teaching application was made by the after-experiment scores of BE writings in these two classes. The study in this paper verifies the positive role of CAT in BE writing, and also offer the effective guidance for improving the BE writing teaching level by CAT.