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Blended learning is presented as an approach combining face-to-face instruction with distance teaching and online activities, aiming to support critical thinking and ongoing participation. Key satisfaction factors include instructor-student interaction and student-student interaction, along with the course’s pedagogical elements. A modified student satisfaction questionnaire for online courses is used, and results guide improvements for newly founded blended courses.","Advances in Language and Literary Studies  \nISSN: 2203-4714  \n[www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au)  \n| Blended Learning and Student Satisfaction: An Investigation into an EAP Writing Course\u003Cbr>Zainab Ibrahim Abbas\u003Cbr>Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED), Baghdad, Iraq Corresponding Author: Zainab Ibrahim Abbas , E-mail: [zainab.elc@hcediraq.org](zainab.elc@hcediraq.org) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>This paper investigates students satisfaction in a blended English writing course for Academic Purposes in Iraq. Blended learning is a novel mode of approaching education and learning in Iraq so it is very relevant to attempt to determine what factors can help it its success. Its novelty comes not from its use of online platforms such as Moodle but blending the traditional face-to face approach and distance teaching in a way that foster critical thinking and ongoing participation of the students. Different factors were emphasized and investigated regarding satisfaction, among them, the instructor-student and student-student interaction, in addition to the pedagogical aspect of the course. Student’s background such as their job and age and family status were not considered in this study. A modified questionnaire of student’s satisfaction in an online course was used to determine the approximate of satisfaction. The result of the research helped the administration office to apply some improvements to the newly-founded Blended courses in Iraq. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: December 07, 2017\u003Cbr>Accepted: January 19, 2018\u003Cbr>Published: February 28, 2018\u003Cbr>Volume: 9 Issue: 1\u003Cbr>Advance access: January 2018 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Blended,\u003Cbr>EAP,\u003Cbr>Interaction, Students Satisfaction, Writing Course |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nHarriman (2004) defines blended learning as a learning environment that combines various delivery modes to provide an effective learning experience for the participants. It is ablend of the strength of the face-to-face classes and online instructions and activities to achieve the certain goals of any given programs. In Garrison and Vaughan (2008)’s words, blended learning is a ‘fundamental redesign that transforms the structure of, and approach to, teaching and learning.’ In this paper, blended learning is a combination of activities and instructions delivered inside the once-a-week classes and the activities and assignments delivered on Moodle.  \nThe advance of information and communications technology has influenced higher education immensely. However, this change has been very slow in the Iraqi context. The only place, so far, to foster the launch of distance and blended education has been the Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED) . The first blended courses were launched in October 2015 with a number of 145 scholarship recipients. The courses delivered EAP (English for Academic Purposes) in three levels of low-intermediate, high-intermediate and Bridge. The students were all post graduate candidates that received scholarship to study in an English-speaking country. 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