Implementing Blended Learning at Technical University: Advantages and Challenges

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the blended learning implementation in the process of foreign language teaching at a technical university. It is focused on the purposes of blended learning and its benefits as well as the challenges, you can face while implementing a blended learning approach. Implementing of blended learning as innovation leads to a number of changes in self-determination and the ways in which the student and teacher work. Students acquire the space of freedom and responsibility in which they learn to make an informed choice and to be responsible for its consequences. Teachers begin to function in new roles for themselves, in particular, they move away from the role of the translator to the role of the tutor. The research examines the opportunities of this educational technology to narrow the gap in students’ level of proficiency in a foreign language through an individual approach to learning, which corresponds to the main trend of the development of the modern educational system.