Foreign language teachers and researchers face a major challenge enabling students’ learning.
Not only must they provide training in the target language, but they must also find ways to
optimise class time and enhance students’ communication skills in the target language. How
does technology intersect with English teaching in ways that benefit learning? A possible
approach would align with integrating web-based strategies and optimising class time through
new methodologies, techniques and resources. In this study, a group of university engineering
students were taught with simulations to aid their learning of English as a foreign language.
These engineering students were taught English through both class-based and a large-scale
real-time web-based simulation. We present the results of quantitative analysis of students’ oral
production. The goal was to show whether simulation-based instruction contributes to
significant progress in oral language production in English. The results indicate that students
progressed significantly in four language-related areas: vocabulary, pronunciation, variety of
expression and grammar.
Keywords: web-based simulation; blended learning; simulation; flipped classroomEducació
