Blended learning in EFL teaching: presenting the online curriculum of a textbook
Abstract
The growing popularity of blended learning is due to the fact that online educational materials and the online educational formats themselves are accessible to an increasing range of language learners and that blended learning funnels online
educational materials and the online form of education into the traditional learning environment. Relevant literature shows a varied picture of exactly what we mean by blended learning and what makes a course one of blended learning. On the one hand, in a sense, it can already be called blended learning when traditional classroom assignments are supplemented with online assignments, or when part of the language course takes place through online materials while the other part takes place within the traditional educational framework. The purpose of our presentation is to present a blended learning course, in particular the textbook used during the course and the related online learning materials. At the beginning of the study, we briefly define the concept and elucidate the concept of blended learning and the theoretical background associated with it, then we present the online materials of a blended learning language course.
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