Nowadays,
technologies have a great impact on education, thus influencing teaching and
learning. For this reason, we consider that blended learning could be a good
way of including technology in the classroom.
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By
integrating technologies in their lessons, teachers can increase learners’
motivation and create positive attitudes towards the foreign language. Since
the web offers a wide range of materials to develop a certain topic- such as,
authentic texts, graphics and pictures, videos, songs, interactive web pages,
blogs and social networks- teachers can profit from them to make students’
learning more meaningful by selecting and adapting resources according to the
learners´ needs. However, this does not
mean that face-to-face learning is not valid. On the contrary, face-to-face
learning provides learners with appropriate explanations for those abstract
aspects and concepts of the foreign language, which might not be clear enough
for students to work them out on their own.
According to Parterrieu (2015),
face-to-face teaching provides the opportunity to create a good atmosphere to
get to know students better and to develop effective activities and tasks for
them. Also, learning a foreign language, might be a difficult or overwhelming
task for students, and teachers can reduce this negative emotions and support
learners with useful strategies to approach the language.
All in all,
we consider that blended learning gives us the opportunity to innovate in our
lessons by introducing interesting topics and by carrying out online tasks.
Besides, it benefits students in the sense that a meaningful context is given
and they can manage their own learning process.
References
- Itslearningglobal (2013); Blended learning in 2 minutes and 38 seconds
- Parterrieu, Sophie (2015), Why we still need face-to-face teaching in the digital age
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