Blended Language Lessons in Practice

Abstract

Having explored the theory and assessment of blended language learning, including action research, we now turn our attention to its practice in the tertiary institution. By ‘practice’, we set out to situate the activity of blended language learning in local contexts, rather than seeing the blending as a system or structure. Blending technologies is an action that teachers, administrators and students ‘do’ or ‘perform’ as social, spatial and temporal activities. This chapter first describes examples of blending technologies in classrooms – within the narrower context of a language learning task or lesson. Following this, in Chapter 7, we focus on the wider context of curricular and institutional programmes.