Blended teaching of English speaking in a Vietnamese context: Design and procedure

Abstract

This article aims to disseminate a technology‐enhanced language pedagogy for teaching oral English in a World Englishes context, which is underpinned by the theories of scaffolding, scaffolded instruction, and task‐based learning, and utilises a Moodle learning management system (LMS) as its e‐learning platform. In this pedagogy, not only do technologies assist language teaching and learning in terms of lesson design, materials development, and lesson delivery, but they actually involve and play a crucial role in students’ oral language development with the exploitation of text‐to‐ speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR). The contemporary status of teaching and learning oral English is discussed to clarify the congruence of the pedagogy with an emerging consensus on teaching English speaking. A brief summary of technology‐enhanced language learning (TELL) and a critical examination of current practices of teaching oral English with technology are also presented for consideration of the position of the proposed framework in the field. The adaptability of the framework in case of the inaccessibility of an LMS is also discussed.