
Blended Learning in Senegal
Author(s) -
Ibrahima Faye,
Mansour Guèye
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
saudi journal of humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2415-6256
pISSN - 2415-6248
DOI - 10.36348/sjhss.2022.v07i01.001
Subject(s) - blended learning , scrutiny , face (sociological concept) , face to face , language acquisition , pedagogy , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , educational technology , political science , social science , epistemology , philosophy , law
This article addresses the issue of English Language Teaching (ELT) especially blended learning whereby English is taught as a foreign language in Senegal, a francophone country. The validity of blended learning method is twofold. On the one hand, it is explainable by the advent of new technologies in the last decades of the twenty first century and the English language (EL) to satisfy a communicative need in all domains across the world. On the other hand, it is justified by the challenges of the traditional learning and teaching methods in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic that fully induce educational authorities to rethink the face-to-face traditional learning style. Thus the study is a succinct scrutiny, at the crossroads of “smart” and face-to-face learning, that questions the above-mentioned learning medium, i.e., blended learning, as a safe and comprehensive teaching and learning method in the twenty first century in Senegal.