IMPLEMENTATION OF BLENDED LEARNING IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT ARMENIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS: FROM EXPERIMENT TO RESULTS

Abstract

The paper demonstrates the findings of the experimental study into the efficiency of blended learning when teaching English for Special Purposes to students applying miscellaneous online tools and platforms in the teaching process, as well as analyzes how best to apply these methods and techniques to achieve success and engage students in the lessons with more beneficial and interest-provoking activities.
The study was conducted among first-year students studying in their bachelor’s degree program, during the first semester by previously testing their initial knowledge of English via a diagnostic test and later, after some lessons held, a set of formative assessments (tests) were carried out to discover how effective blended learning was and if they improved their knowledge after the installation of this learning modality.
The results showed that the knowledge improved and increased substantially in the experimental group where blended learning methods were applied, while the control group based on traditional teaching methods had comparatively little progress.