Web-Based Scaffolding Teaching of EAP Reading and Writing

DOI: 10.4236/ce.2019.108134, PP. 1863-1872

Keywords: Web-Based, Scaffolding, EAP Reading and Writing

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Abstract:

With the deepening development of educational reform of College English, its transformation has become an inevitable problem. EAP teaching has become a new topic in College English teaching under the objective situation of the great progress where bilingual teaching in key national universities has made. Based on the Sydney School’s scaffolding instruction framework of EAP reading and writing, in combination of the training objectives and course settings for the talents from advanced science and engineering universities, we have conducted an empirical research on web-based scaffolding pedagogy of EAP literacy cultivation. In the follow-up questionnaires, students have general reflex that independent EAP reading and writing ability has met a significant improvement, and the awareness of self-learning and cooperative learning has been fully tapped.

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