STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON BLENDED LEARNING APPLICATION IN ENHANCING ENGLISH ORAL COMPETENCE AT TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY
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Abstract
Blended learning has become an extremely popular instruction in diverse educational contexts, especially in the Covid-19 pandemic. This instruction has created opportunities for both teachers and students to interact together, which has led to the complete unity among them and has brought beneficial results in education. In this article, the authors would like to investigate students’ feedback and their attitudes towards the application of Blended Learning in enhancing English oral competence at Ton Duc Thang University. The research shows the paramount importance of Blended Leaning in helping students enhance their learning ability generally and their oral competence specifically. It, in addition, elicits some of the big hurdles during the implementation, teaching and learning as well as proposes some feasible solutions for future application in this context. Through deep interviews with students, lecturers and managerial staff, the authors would like to elicit its positives and negatives withdrawn from practicality as well as suggest some recommendations to help improve the teaching quality generally and students’ English oral competence specifically.
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blended learning, English oral competence, traditional instruction
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