Author(s)

Ruixue Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China

Corresponding Author

Ruixue Zhang

ABSTRACT

The Production-Oriented Approach has developed in China for over a decade with the aim of tackling the existing problems of being text-centered and input-based in college English instruction through adopting “learning-using integrated” principle, and the effectiveness of POA has been proved in various previous studies. The present study focuses on enabling, the most crucial and challenging phase in POA instruction, and apply the criteria for effective enabling activities to the design and implementation of enabling activities based on a different textbook and conducted under a different circumstance. And the result from the feedback form and interview of observers and participants and the quality of students’ productive work verified the effectiveness of these criteria. The study is significant in the verification of the designing principles for effective enabling activities and the application and extension of POA theory.

KEYWORDS

Enabling Activities, College English Instruction, Production-Oriented Approach

CITE THIS PAPER

Ruixue Zhang, The Design and Implementation of Enabling Activities in College English Instruction Based on the Production-Oriented Approach. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 9-16. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.060602.

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