Implementation of Blended Learning to Teach Writing Skills in Engineering Colleges: A study on Teachers’ Perceptions and Observations

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Divya Deevi , Durga Malleeswari Sunkara

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This study assesses how English teachers in Engineering colleges are implementing Blended Learning mode of instruction. Nowadays as writing skills play a vital role in job seeking by engineering students, institutions are giving utmost priority by establishing communication labs. For this study thirty English teachers from different engineering colleges were selected to determine how blended learning can successfully be implemented in teaching writing skills especially in the areas of grammar, composition, coherence, sentence construction and critical thinking and their valuable opinions were collected. For this purpose, quantitative data was used. A questionnaire on different aspects was given to them. Their responses were carefully analyzed. The findings clearly show that blended learning’s effective implementation, integration and transformation in educational institutions help students and teachers achieve their goals successfully. This blended learning mode of instruction can be a potent pedagogical tool to improve writing skills of engineering students.

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