“智慧助老”背景下混合式老年英语词汇教学模式探究

A Probe into the Blended Learning Model of English Vocabulary Teaching for Older Adults against the Backdrop of “Helping Seniors Citizens Cross the Digital Divide”

在“智慧助老”的背景下,创新线上线下相融合的混合教学模式是帮助老年人跨越“数字鸿沟”的重要举措。文章以老年英语词汇教学为例,从认知心理学的视角构建基于希沃智能白板和Quizlet的混合学习模式,强调教学内容需要紧扣老年人的学习需求,由教师主导的面授教学与以学习者为主体的移动学习深度融合,使“教”与“学”两个环节形成良性的互动闭环。该模式不仅为老年人提供灵活便利的移动学习平台和优质的词汇学习资源,有利于提高老年人的智能素养和学习自主性,而且也有助于改善传统的英语课堂词汇教学。但在未来的研究中,仍需要通过教学实验和师生的态度调查来进一步验证老年英语词汇混合学习模式的效果。

To innovate in the online and offline integration of blended teaching mode is one crucial countermeasure to help older adults cross “the digital divide” against the backdrop of “smart aid for seniors”. By taking English vocabulary instruction for older adults as an example, a blended learning model based on Seewo intelligent whiteboard and Quizlet is constructed from the perspective of cognitive psychology, which emphasizes the learning needs of the elderly and the deep integration of teacher-led face-to-face teaching and elderly-oriented mobile learning, thus contributing to a benign interactive cycle of “teaching” and “learning”. This model not only provides a flexible and convenient mobile learning platform and high-quality vocabulary learning resources for late-life learners which are conducive to enhancing their intellectual literacy and learning autonomy, but also helps to improve English vocabulary teaching in the traditional classroom. In future research, it is still necessary to conduct teaching experiments and teacher-student attitude surveys to further examine the effectiveness of the blended learning model of English vocabulary for older adults.