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A Case Study of Mobile Blended earning in Teaching English as a Foreign Language Min GUOa, Minjuan WANGb1 , and Bingbing LIa aWuhan Polytechnic University bLearning Design and Technology, San Diego State University Abstract. With the rapid development of informational technologies and mobile devices, blended learning is receiving more attention in higher educational learning environment. Based on the relevant literature review of blended learning and language learning and teaching, this paper explores learning and teaching when mobile phones were used in the BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices) model to implement blended learning in English as Foreign Language (EFL) language course at university level. Keywords. Mobile Devices, Blended learning, EFL Course 1. Introduction The rapid developments of informational technologies contribute to a technological revolution taking place in higher education. In digital age, universities are confronted to “provide for a larger and more diverse cross-section of the population, to cater for emerging patterns on educational involvement which facilitate lifelong learning and to include technology-based practices in the curriculum” (p.143) [1]. In 2004, Garrison [2] claims that blended learning is the transformative force to accomplish the goals of higher education. According to the Horizon Report (2019 High Edition edition), blended learning is one of the preferred approaches to learning in higher education, attributing to its flexibility and easy access to learning content for students. The future trends of blended learning will move towards integrating digital learning platforms into blended learning courses so as to achieve a student-centered collaborative personalized learning experience in higher education [3]. In the field of foreign and second language learning and teaching, blended learning has been receiving a lot of attention. An increasing body of empirical studies show that blended learning can enhance the effectiveness of second language learning [4] [5] [6]. In 2017, Grgurovic [7] examined the literature review of blended language learning from 1Corresponding Author: Minjuan Wang: Professor, San Diego State University, 92182, 5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego, CA; E-mail: mwang@sdsu.edu L Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190052 269