Azadeh Ashrafzadeh

This review paper tends to discuss the blended language learning environment, its advantagesand disadvantages. The blended learning is the combination of web based and face-to-faceinstructions that is necessary to produce a course using the best of both instructional worlds. Thepresent paper showed that, generally, the blended language learning has a major impact onlanguage teaching and learning and there are many ways to integrate it into a language course.Incorporating blended learning in the classrooms make the learning environment morecollaborative, interactional and motivating for students. It can increase learners’ autonomy andbring about student-centered learning by encouraging students to take more responsibility fortheir foreign language learning. All of these factors can lead to students’ achievement languagelearning.

Blended Learning; Blended Language Learning; Advantages; Disadvantages