A Study On The Application Of ASSURE Model In Secondary Vocational School English Teaching

ASSURE model is the core content of Instructional Technology and Media for Learning in 1989 by Sharon Smalsino,Robert Heinich,Michael Molenda and James.D.Russell.The six letters of ASSURE model represent six steps of teaching activities,including analyzing learners,stating objectives,selecting methods,media and materials,utilizing materials,requiring learner participation and evaluating and revising.It has been a widely accepted teaching model and obtains the good results in foreign language teaching.So how to use ASSURE model in the secondary vocational English teaching is worth exploring.In this paper,the research questions are shown as follows:1.What influence does the ASSURE model have on students’ English exam results in secondary vocational school?2.What influence does the ASSURE model have on students’ interes tinlearning English in secondary vocational school?3.What influence does the ASSURE model have on students’ confidence in learning English in secondary vocational school?In order to answer the above three questions,the author adopted qualitative and quantitative research methods.Firstly,before the experiment,the author conducted a questionnaire among 91 students from Lishi Normal Shool,in order to understand whether students have interest in learning English or not and to know their recognition on the ASSURE model.Secondly,based on the relevant theories and studies of ASSURE model,an experiment is conducted in Lishi Normal School.In this experiment,the subjects are students of two classes (1501and1502)and they are in Grade two from Lishi Normal School in Shanxi.Before the experiment,they took part in the pre-test.Class 1501 was the control group,taught with traditional multimedia-assisted foreign language teaching.Class1502 was the experimental group and the teacher adopted the ASSURE model.After the experiment,they took part in the post-test.In addition,the questionnaire was conducted again in experimental class in order to check whether the ASSURE model can be good for students’ learning.The major findings are shown as follows.Before the experiment,the results of students’ questionnaire shows that students’ interest in learning English is low and they will pay little attention to English and be unwilling to learning English hard and take part in teaching activities.The results of pre-test show that the differences in exam results between the experimental class and the control class are not significant and exam results of the two groups are lower,which mean that English level of the two groups are basically same.However,the results of post-test shows that the mean of exam results of the control class is lower than that of the experimental class and the difference between above the two groups are significant.So it can be concluded that the ASSURE model is more effective in improving the students’ exam results than traditional teaching model.Moreover,from the results of questionnaire and interview,it can be seen that the ASSURE model can motivate students’ learning interest in English and increase their confidence in learning English.There are some limitations in this study,but they can still get some helpful findings for English teachers when they use the ASSURE model.