ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DISTANT AND BLENDED MODELS OF ENGLISH LEARNING AT NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of distant and blended (or hybrid) learning in English-teaching process at non-linguistic universities, which is highly relevant nowadays. It reveals difficulties which may occur when teaching English online and the article offers some practical ideas and recommendations of overcoming them. The article also compares and contrasts advantages and disadvantages of distant and blended education at non-linguistic universities. As a research task, the author evaluates the effectiveness of blended learning with a group of 1st year students, learning English at a non-linguistic university The aim of the article is to determine which format of English-learning is most effective. As a result of the experiment, blended learning, which combines offline and online learning, is offered as the most prospective and efficient model of teaching English.