The Application of Blended Learning in ELT at Ha Noi University of Home Affairs

Blended learning is a method of instruction that blends technology and digital media with traditional instructor-led classroom activities to offer students more flexibility to customize their learning experiences. This is considered an active teaching approach since it allows for personalization of the E-learning experience by integrating the best aspects of face-to-face education with technology-based E-learning methods. It enhances the learner's experience by enabling anytime, anywhere learning and modifying the instructor's role. Therefore, it is widely utilized at many domestic and international educational institutions by dint of its superiority and comprehensiveness, such as flexible and easy-to-update curricula that fully meet learners' needs and learning styles, increased opportunities for communication and social sharing, limitless online resources, expanded classroom space, promoted active learning with the support of information technology in the online environment, and so on. As a result, the focus of this study is on exploring the blended learning model, analyzing its benefits and drawbacks, and giving recommendations for successfully adopting it in ELT at Hanoi University of Home Affairs to suit its learners, curriculum, and foreign language teaching context. Keywords: Blended learning, B-learning, technology-mediated instruction