REVISITING BLENDED LEARNING IN TRAINING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Blended learning being one of the relevant educational approach at the current moment directly connected with the conditions of coronavirus pandemic lockdown combines teacher’s face-to-face and online learning. It involves elements of independent student’s control of the educational schedule, place and pace of learning and integration of teacher’s experience.
It allows developing students’ planning skills, self-control and self-regulation giving them much freedom. In this case teacher-assisted learning concerning students’ needs seems to be an important part. Because students are eager however to have teacher’s presence in the distant classroom as he demonstrates patterns of behavior and thinking, ways of building relationships.
Blended learning has many advantages combining distance and traditional teaching methods: it provides the opportunity for students and teacher to interact with each other at on-line platforms. It also creates a favourable educational environment, the mood to achieve a result, motivation to study. Participants instantly receive feedback, discuss material, ask questions. Collaborative learning and student interaction enhance cognitive abilities, develop their emotional intelligence. The blended model provides more freedom for students: choose of material, pace, time and place of study. The teacher has more freedom as well: in the presentation of training materials, monitoring and evaluation due to reducing his time to test as it is performed online.

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