Students’ Assessment of Blended Learning in an English Language Instruction Course at the University of Cuenca
Autor: | Vicente Guillermo Pacheco Salazar |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
evaluation
media_common.quotation_subject English language Course (navigation) Language assessment Moodle Pedagogy Mathematics education ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Function (engineering) media_common 060201 languages & linguistics lcsh:LC8-6691 Class (computer programming) Harmony (color) lcsh:English language lcsh:Special aspects of education business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts blended learning Blended learning 0602 languages and literature The Internet textbook lcsh:PE1-3729 Psychology business blended learning English language course Moodle textbook evaluation English language course 0503 education |
Zdroj: | Volume: 1, Issue: 1 33-40 Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching Vicente Guillermo Pacheco Salazar Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 33-40 (2016) |
ISSN: | 2458-9918 |
Popis: | The research aimed to assess students’ appreciation of blended learning in a fourth-level English language instruction course at the University of Cuenca. The experiment was conducted in 2011 during the spring semester, and a total of 58 students participated. For the class, a mix of classical teaching using a textbook and instruction via internet using the Moodle software were used in harmony. The impressions and experiences of the students were gathered via a questionnaire and an interview; and analysed through Excel. The students liked the blended approach, were motivated to practice and communicate, learned better and more effectively, and considerably improved their English language skills. Initially, introducing the blended approach meant an additional burden for the lecturer, but, in the end, it considerably facilitated the teaching process. The experiment revealed that the university has to enhance its technological platform to make the modular, internet-based sections of the course function smoothly. Keywords: blended learning, English language course, Moodle, textbook, evaluation. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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