BLENDED LEARNING IN ESP LISTENING

Galina Kavaliauskienė

Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Abstract

For a long time researchers and language practitioners have maintained that listening skills could be picked up by the learners. By now it has been generally accepted that listening skills have to be taught like any other language skills. The current advantages of high-technology allow employing the method blended learning of listening skills in English classrooms. This article examines the practice of blended learning in the sense of its classic definition, look at some online activities teachers can select, and present some evidence of a its positive contribution to the difficult task of second language acquisition for communication.

Key words: blended learning of listening skills, English for Specific Purposes, statistical processing by a means of Statistical Package for Social Sciences.

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