On the Synergy of Modalities and Multimodal Teaching Model of Integrated Business English

WANG Xin
2018 US-China Foreign Language  
This paper firstly reviews the characteristics and current situation of business English teaching, especially pointing out the four main problems in practical teaching. Then it introduces the theory of Multimodal Discourse Analysis and its important influence on modern multimedia foreign language teaching. By analyzing a teaching case of the integrated business English course, the author discusses the synergy of different modalities to achieve the teaching goal in the 10 stages of the actual
more » ... ching. Finally, it tries to construct a multimodal teaching model of integrated business English from four aspects: expanding multimodal teaching content, exploring multimodal teaching approach, carrying out multimodal practice activity, and improving multimodal evaluation system.
doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2018.09.005 fatcat:nigfq46sobae3naidrczximrsu