Aspects of blended foreign language teaching assessment in higher education

Abstract

Blended foreign language teaching offers various ways of providing learning content, and offering different interactions between teachers and learners. It is an opportunity for individualization of students’ learning and making important and responsible pedagogical decisions. The study examines the main aspects of blended foreign language learning assessment in terms of both its effectiveness and its potential to provide opportunities for development of specific teaching skills through active integration of new technologies and related teaching approaches. The assessment of blended learning is becoming increasingly important in view of learners and educators’ needs increased nowadays to implement blended learning models in the education system.

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