期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：230-239
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：Proponents of hybrid or adjunct learning consider it as an effective way of expanding language learners' knowledge. Comparing hybrid learning with traditional face-to-face instruction, this study was an attempt to find out which of them could better foster language learners' writing skill. For this purpose, 110 male and female freshmen majoring in English at Zand Institute of Higher Education in Shiraz and Islamic Azad University in Shiraz, Iran were selected as the participants. They took an essay-writing test before the instruction. Then, they were divided into two groups. The first group took in-class writing instruction and activities in conventional mode; the second group took in-class instruction and did their activities online. After the treatment, they all took another essay-writing test as the post-test. The comparison between the conventional and hybrid groups' writing gain scores showed that those who were instructed in a hybrid learning environment could outperform their peers who took traditional face-to-face instruction.
关键词：Adjunct learning; face-to-face instruction; writing skill; foreign language learning
