etween the Chinese and American teacher through Р email, supplemented with some discussion of Chinese students’ blogs on the Bulletin Board System in the Р US university, a survey and the final oral examination. The data analysis and results of qualitative nature Р suggest that the new approach has four key factors vital to the ess of this type of cross-country distance Р education: the dominating role of interactive activities in the on-line classroom teaching in real time, the Р use of the multidimensional interactive tasks through learning by doing both inside and outside of class, Р the implementation of multifaceted types of munication, and the adoption of the effective Р techniques for students’ conceptual construction of lesson content.Р 97Р中国外语教育2015.二期-正文.indd 97 2015-6-4 10:46:34