Title: The problem-based learning mode for teaching English to college students

Authors: Lijuan Song

Addresses: School of International Education, Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou, Henan 451191, China

Abstract: This paper firstly introduced the traditional English teaching mode and then briefly introduced the problem-based learning (PBL) English teaching mode. Then, in order to test the effect of the PBL teaching mode, 200 college students were selected for relevant teaching tests. The results demonstrated that the performance distribution of students who were taught by the traditional mode almost had no change after English teaching, and the performance distribution of students who were taught by the PBL mode in the experimental class had improvement. The questionnaire survey of students in the experimental class showed that most students agreed with the PBL mode.

Keywords: English; problem-based learning; PBL; teaching mode; listening; speaking; reading.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2022.125733

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 2022 Vol.32 No.5, pp.640 - 649

Received: 15 Jun 2020
Accepted: 15 Jan 2021
Published online: 27 Sep 2022 *

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