Innovative Methods in Teaching Reading Skills

Abstract

As the world is entering a new phase of development enormous transformations are currently taking place in learning paradigms and practices. Every teacher wants to use the appropriate mix of innovative training technologies and methodologies to attract today’s students and to enhance the effectiveness of teaching. For that reason, blended learning or “Augmented Learning” has appeared. Augmented learning describes learning that „augments‟ or extends the traditional formal education, blending into it and using the new digital media based on the internet and social Media. The aim of the paper is to present augmented reality for the future blended education and to look at blogging while teaching English as a second language in Georgia. Blogging is becoming increasingly popular as a language learning tool throughout the world recently. The article gives an overview of blogging websites, suggests why you might want to use them, and gives some practical advice on setting up blogs for use with your own classes. The article also presents findings from the survey about utilizing blogs by Georgian English Language Teachers while teaching reading.