Effectiveness of Blended Approach to ESP Students

The issues raised in this book concern reading difficulties of English for Legal Purposes (ELP) students. It focused on Master¿s students at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (University of Tlemcen). The main objective of this research work was to investigate the reasons of students¿ miscomprehension of texts used in their field of interest. Therefore, the present research work was twofold: first, it described the teaching/learning situation of ELP Master¿s students; second, it conducted a needs analysis of ELP students¿ reading. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the research instruments made into evidence that students¿ low achievement in reading was affected by the use of inadequate ELP teaching methods, insufficient teaching time and lack of students¿ practice.