Application of the ICT-Based Blended Teaching Model for Ideological and Political Education: A Case Study of Two Consecutive Interpreting Classes

The traditional interpreting teaching model has long been plagued by the problem of insufficient teaching time, which brings great challenges to the integration of ideological and political education (IPE) into the classroom. This empirical study established a special blended teaching model based on the ICT-powered online education ecosystem and examined its application to and effect for conducting ideological and political education in the consecutive interpreting course. A contrastive experiment was performed among two classes of English majors, which were taught under two different models respectively: the traditional offline model and the ICT-based blended model. A questionnaire and SPSS were employed to collect and process the data. The results showed that the application of the ICT-based blended model was effective in integrating IPE into the course and improving the students’ consecutive interpreting competence. A sample of teaching design was also demonstrated to exemplify the application of the ICT features in the action research.