Creating Effective Blended Language Learning Courses - A Research-Based Guide from Planning to Evaluation

Using an innovative framework, this book provides the rationale, strategies, and tools to create optimal blended language learning courses.

List 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.

About the author

Daria Mizza is Head of Language Instructional Technology at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the French and Italian Language Programs.Fernando Rubio is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Utah, where he is also Director of the Second Language Teaching and Research Center and Director of Online Curriculum Enhancement and Innovation.

Summary

Based around a four-phase framework, this book provides a practical guide for designing blended learning courses, and an overview of the key issues in language pedagogy and instructional technology. With practical examples, and step-by-step instructions, it will help teachers creating courses, as well as graduate students in language methodology.

Foreword

Using an innovative framework, this book provides the rationale, strategies, and tools to create optimal blended language learning courses.

Product details

• Authors: Daria Mizza, Daria (The Johns Hopkins University) Mizza, Fernando Rubio, Fernando (University of Utah) Rubio, Rubio Fernando
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2024
• EAN: 9781108430883
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43088-3
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Language teaching and learning material and coursework, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods