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In language teaching, collaborative knowledge building (CKB) can be used to strengthen students’ participation, communication, cooperation and viewpoint-sharing and as a result, improve students’ academic achievements and their leaning abilities as well. This paper analyzes how to use CKB to organize language classroom teaching and studies the effects of CKB-based teaching in a blended language classroom. The results indicate that the application of CKB in blended language classroom teaching is feasible, operable and effective. CKB-based teaching can improve students’ ability to use language and their comprehensive quality, especially when enough time, relevant training and various supports and encouragements provided. But the more successful application of CKB-based teaching will be based on further research concerning teachers’ intervention, teaching resources, gender differences, and evaluation methods etc.
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Jiang, Y., Zhao, J. (2013). Research on Application of Collaborative Knowledge Building in Blended Language Classroom Teaching. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Fong, J., Fong, W., Wang, F.L., Kwok, L.F. (eds) Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education. ICHL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39750-9_5
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