Blended Learning as a Means of Foreign Students’ Integration into a University Educational Process

Authors

  • Nadezhda Kuzmina South Ural State University (national research university)
  • Darya Kochkina South Ural State University (national research university)
  • Maksim Kuzmin South Ural State University (national research university)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i06.19073

Keywords:

blended learning, foreign students’ integration, university educational process, language training, learning management system (LMS)

Abstract


This paper considers the problem of blended learning as a means of foreign students’ integration into higher school environment. This process is not that simple, it demands special methods to help foreign students to be integrated easily. The use of blended learning in education facilitates easy students’ integration and leads to positive learning results. However, the application of blended learning is connected with challenges both educators and foreign students can face. The aim of the article is to consider and assess the use of blended learning at the lessons of English implemented into a university educational process. For that purpose, we applied such methods as a needs analysis (among lecturers of English from South Ural State University), a questionnaire and an interview (among three groups of students from similar bachelor’s programs). The findings show that the majority of those surveyed do understand the importance of blended learning as a means of foreign students’ integration, but they are not familiar with the types and how to use them. Based on the results of this analysis, the authors applied blended learning into the process of English teaching, such as flipped classroom, station rotation, and a new online language development course, “Methodological support to the textbook by McCarthy, M. “Touchstone”. The drawn conclusions indicate that blended learning allows not only to boost foreign language skills, but to promote easy foreign students’ integration into the educational process of the university.

Author Biographies

Nadezhda Kuzmina, South Ural State University (national research university)

Foreign Languages Department, associate professor

Darya Kochkina, South Ural State University (national research university)

Foreign Languages Department, senior lecturer

Maksim Kuzmin, South Ural State University (national research university)

Financial Technologies Department, senior lecturer

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Published

2021-03-30

How to Cite

Kuzmina, N., Kochkina, D., & Kuzmin, M. (2021). Blended Learning as a Means of Foreign Students’ Integration into a University Educational Process. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 16(06), pp. 259–274. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i06.19073

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