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Using HyFlex to Teach English for Academic Purposes: The Instructor’s Perspective

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The Use of Technology in English Medium Education

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face teaching has all but disappeared, with many higher education institutions adopting blended and online learning. The case study described in this chapter explored the experience of nine instructors at an English-medium university in Hong Kong who used HyFlex, a blended-learning model, to teach English for Academic Purposes. Overall, the teachers were unprepared to use this pedagogical approach to teach concurrent classrooms as required. However, they identified several strategies that facilitated teaching and learning in the HyFlex mode: utilising student response tools, incorporating station rotation and focusing on pairs or smaller groups of students. These techniques could be used to improve the delivery of blended learning in higher education.

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  3. Faculty of Education, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

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Kohnke, L. (2022). Using HyFlex to Teach English for Academic Purposes: The Instructor’s Perspective. In: Pun, J.K.H., Curle, S., Yuksel, D. (eds) The Use of Technology in English Medium Education. English Language Education, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99622-2_5

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