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Formative Assessment System of WeChat-aided Business English Class
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Author: Guifang Wang
Abstract: The emergence of micro-social platform provides the necessary environment and technical support for individualized mobile learning. Individualized mobile learning based on WeChat improves the efficiency of Business English teaching and learning. Formative assessment applies to tracking, monitoring, and assessing students’ web-based self-learning process in Business English study in Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages. The assessment results are used to guide students’ learning effort, so as to promote their autonomous learning ability, and thus make the assessment process and the teaching process an integrated whole. A formative assessment system for business English study is then established based on the research results.
Keywords: Formative Assessment, Learning Model, Business English, WeChat-aided Teaching
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