Each chapter includes a sequence of activities followed by a final project and a test in which language skills are assessed. This design is suitable for use in teacher-led, blended, and online instructional environments, as well as by independent learners. Provides instructional strategies for effectively meeting student needs, such as moving from nonlinguistic to linguistic output, moving from words to sentences to connected discourse, breaking down a task into manageable subtasks, and allowing for ample preparation and planning. With each activity are recommendations for which technology to select with a step-by-step explanation to guide its use and enhance the activity's pedagogical effectiveness.

Each chapter includes a sequence of activities followed by a final project and a test in which language skills are assessed. This design is suitable for use in teacher-led, blended, and online instructional environments, as well as by independent learners. Provides instructional strategies for effectively meeting student needs, such as moving from nonlinguistic to linguistic output, moving from words to sentences to connected discourse, breaking down a task into manageable subtasks, and allowing for ample preparation and planning. With each activity are recommendations for which technology to select with a step-by-step explanation to guide its use and enhance the activity's pedagogical effectiveness.

Blended language courses, which combine face-to-face and online instruction, are becoming increasingly popular due to the need for more flexible yet effective learning opportunities. This book recognizes the associated opportunities and challenges for teachers, and provides the rationale, strategies and tools to design blended learning courses or to guide the transition from fully face-to-face or fully online courses to blended instruction. The authors propose a framework based on four phases, Design, Build, Teach and Evaluate, which facilitates a systematic approach to course development. The volume simplifies the connection between theory and practice, by including examples that readers can relate to and immediately implement as they build or teach a course. Including case studies of successful implementations, and effective instructional strategies and techniques, this book is accessible even for teachers without previous experience in course design, whilst also acting as a reference for more experienced language educators.