Blended Learning: Advantages and Disadvantages

Abstract

The teaching of English has witnessed remarkable developments in terms of approaches and methods used in the English language classroom. The basic teaching media used in an English language class include the whiteboard. Moreover, teachers have been encouraged to use the various types of technology that have emerged in recent years such as the data projector, the smart board, mobile devices, audio and video recordings and computers in order to show students words, pictures and texts. Moreover, many ways of learning have appeared such as distant learning and blended learning to enable students to learn. Blended learning that uses both online and in-person learning (Harmer, 2012) has been adopted in the Algerian universities right after the Covid pandemic emergence. To this end, the aim of this paper is to shed light on blended learning in the Algerian universities context, highlighting its advantages and disadvantages.