Constructivist Blended Learning Approach: to Teaching English for Specific Purposes

✍ Scribed by Oleg Tarnopolsky

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph analyzes an innovative approach to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in tertiary education. This "constructivist blended learning approach" is based on students "constructing" for themselves their own knowledge and professional communication skills in English by making extensive use of Internet sites in English, combining traditional in-class learning with in- and out-of-class learning through the Internet (blended learning). Dr. Tarnopolsky offers a thorough analysis of the principal forms of learning activities in English for this approach and suggests five principles underlying its practical implementation.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Experiential interactive learning as the constituent part of the constructivist approach that determ
Content-based instruction as the constituent part of the constructivist approach that determines the
Using Internet technologies as the foundation of organizational forms in introducing the constructiv
Principles of practical implementation of the constructivist blended learning approach to teaching E
Practical implementation of the constructivist blended learning approach to teaching English for Spe
Conclusion
References
Author Index
Subject index