DUNG DANG -

APPLICABILITY, PRACTICALITY AND FEASIBILITY OF EMPLOYING BLENDED LEARNING IN EFL CONTEXTS : BLENDED LEARNING IN ELT

Much attention has been paid to a combination of class-based and online programs over the past 10 years, but to date researchers and teachers have different views on whether such an approach can ensure the feasibility, applicability and practicality as blended learning depends much on a particular context and other things. The goal of the paper is to investigate whether the existing face to face curriculum articulates with online programs in order for the blended learning to be properly set up. The paper begins with a detailed description of a teaching context and then proposes the evaluation whether the existing curricula, which are largely class-based program, can fit the potential online components in the future, followed by the evaluation of pedagogies. The findings could serve as a reference for those who plan to employ blended learning as their added and supplementary approaches to their teaching.

Dung Dang holds his Master‘s degree from New Zealand. He is a teacher of English at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and has presented papers at conferences such as ThaiTESOL, CamTESOL, Asia TEFL, and RELC Singapore. His research interests are in workplace language, vocabulary, critical thinking and genres of writing.