Mobile-based Blended Instruction in a Foreign Language Classroom as a Model of Enhancing Learners' Attitude

摘要

This paper presents a new pedagogical teaching model for foreign language learning. The effect of implementation of mobile-based blended instruction in classroom on the learners' attitude of learning a foreign language will be examined. Our blended learning model is defined as the combination of face-to-face lecture, pair work and collaborative practice, and individual-level shadowing and feedback activity using iPod Touch in a traditional non-wired classroom. Our lessons are designed on the basis of the ARCS model, which expects to enhance learner's learning motivation. Our research reveals that with effective use of mobile tools and its contents the instruction can facilitate students' learning process by providing types of task to attempt and opportunities to accomplish them and stimulate learners' motivation or consciousness toward more communicative strategies.