Creating Effective Blended Language Learning Courses
Creating Effective Blended Language Learning Courses
Blended language courses, which combine face-to-face and online instruction, are becoming increasingly popular due to the need for more flexible yet effective learning opportunities. This book recognizes the associated opportunities and challenges for teachers, and provides the rationale, strategies and tools to design blended learning courses or to guide the transition from fully face-to-face or fully online courses to blended instruction. The authors propose a framework based on four phases, Design, Build, Teach and Evaluate, which facilitates a systematic approach to course development. The volume simplifies the connection between theory and practice, by including examples that readers can relate to and immediately implement as they build or teach a course. Including case studies of successful implementations, and effective instructional strategies and techniques, this book is accessible even for teachers without previous experience in course design, whilst also acting as a reference for more experienced language educators.
- Proposes a framework to organize the development of effective blended learning experiences for language courses
- Offers research-based justifications for the adoption of blended designs in language learning
- Facilitates a step-by-step process to course development that is accessible even to instructors without previous experience in instructional design
Product details
October 2020Hardback
9781108420785
300 pages
235 × 160 × 25 mm
0.6kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Theoretical Background:
- 1. Blended language learning definition and research
- Part II. Route, Process, and Structure:
- 2. The roadmap to blended language learning adoption: routes, rationales, and the decision-making process
- 3. The foundation of blended language learning: the blend, the blending process, and the blended path
- 4. Course design and redesign in practice: examples from colleges and universities across the world
- Part III. The BLL Development Framework:
- 5. The design phase: planning and organizing blended language courses
- 6. The build phase: building activities and tasks for blended language courses
- 7. The teach phase: teaching blended language courses
- 8. The revise phase: assessing and evaluating blended language courses.
