Blended learning in ESP listening

Abstract

For a long time researchers and language practitioners have maintained that listening skills could be picked up by the learners. By now it has been generally accepted that listening skills have to be taught like any other language skills. The current advantages of high-technology allow employing the method blended learning of listening skills in the English classrooms. This article examines the practice of blended leanring in the sense of its defintion, look at some online activities teachers can select, and present some evidence of a its postive contribution to the difficult task of second language acquistion for communication.