A Mixed-method Study of PAD Teaching Mode-based College English Teaching

PAD Class, an innovative teaching method in China, has been widely applied in teaching different subjects by teachers from primary schools to universities and exerted great influence in transforming the teaching effects and arousing students’ initiative to learn. Through the study on College English Advanced Courses that adopted PAD Class, An empirical study of PAD Class of three college English courses shows that this teaching model has the advantages of stimulating motivation/interest in learning, cultivating good learning behaviors, promoting social development (interpersonal / teacher-student relationship), promoting self-development (self-confidence, extroversion), and promoting thinking ability (independent thinking, discernment, and in-depth learning), and the acceptance of PAD Class is positively correlated with the advantages of it. And this teaching model is worth further popularizing and applying.