Blended ir and er approaches to teaching reading in english with digital support in tertiary education

Abstract

Blending Intensive Reading (IR) and Extensive Reading (ER) in teaching English has emerged as a powerful pedagogical strategy, especially in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and ESL (English as a Second Language) contexts. The article presents the author’s experience in implementing this approach in the process of English teachers’ training in the educational setting of Umirzak Sultangazin Pedagogical Institute of Kostanai Regional Akhmet Baitursynuly University. Digital resources and AI involved into this experience are emphasized, with the author’s comments on their benefits and limitations that became evident in realization of blended IR and ER approaches in the work with third year students training to be English teachers.