A Study On English Blended Learning At Vocational Colleges

English is widely used all over the world. Concerning the large size of Chinese population, it is hard to get the correct number of how many Chinese are learning English. Even the little kids in the kindergarten start to learn English before they start to learn Chinese characters. Chinese government has placed on the agenda an educational reform on English teaching and learning.In 2004, the Education Ministry issued College English Curriculum Requirements (For Trial Implementation). This requirement regulates:"The new teaching model should be built on modern information technology, particularly network technology so that English language teaching will be free from the constraints of time or place and geared toward students'individualized and autonomous learning."This new teaching requirement brings new opportunities to English teaching and learning. Some universities and colleges have started to apply it to the daily teaching and learning. It is necessary to survey the present situation of the application of blended learning. It is significantly important for the teachers to build an appropriate teaching model, which can take good use of modern technology. For such purpose, the researcher proposes the present study.Since blended learning was introduced to China by professor He Kekang in 2003, it has been a matter of concern to domestic scholars. This is because blended learning serves as a connecting point of traditional teaching and e-learning. (Zhao Lijuan, 2004)This thesis begins with all kinds of its definitions of blended learning and then analyzes the characters and advantages of blended learning under the environment of the internet and presents related theories in linguistics and learning, based on these, the theoretical foundations of blended learning are presented.Then a questionnaire was made to investigate the current state of the application of the blended learning at Neusoft Information Technology institute. After the questionnaire was analyzed, some students are interviewed in order to find out the underlying factors responsible for the present situation.According to the findings from the survey, the researcher concludes that students like the learning style---- blended learning. And blended learning requires more involvement of teachers and students. At last, a model of blended learning process is presented.