language teaching , language learning, covid19 pandemic
First of all we should accept this; this virus changes our minds, and it breaks our taboos about the learning system. The pandemic has pushed the language teaching industry across the world to find alternatives to in-person instruction. Consequently, online education has been used by teachers and students on an unprecedented scale. Language teaching will focus on e-learning more than traditional offline learning in the post-COVID-19 period.
The problem was in cases where teachers and schools were ill-prepared for the new situation. At the beginning, most of the work in distance learning took place only in writing, which strengthened or. maintained only reading and writing language competences, i.e. passive knowledge, while active language use was neglected.
In particular, the effect on language proficiency was shown in schools attended by pupils with other first language.
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I can say that; Yes, the pandemic has changed teaching in many ways. Most teachings are now done by virtual means; by the use of mufti-media platforms etc. It has also boosted the adoption of technology in teaching more than it used to be in the past .
Yes. Pandemic has definitely impacted the methods of language teaching. Not only language teaching, but also every subject has changed the way of teaching from schools to college levels. the Teachers are exposed to technology better than before using video conferencing platforms, but how far the student's community across the globe are benefited is a big question mark only.
Has Covid 19 Really Impacted Language Teaching Methods? Yes ,,, and force the teacher to diversify teaching methods and find alternatives to more realistic educational means to present the material in order to deliver it in an effective and non-boring way. And he was a great opponent of methods of teaching writing, especially to the initiators. So we can say it had positive and negative effects. He agreed with N. Sudha in his question, How much benefit is the student community around the world is only a big question mark? Answering such questions may take a long time.@
I think it's all too premature if not mistaken to claim that the pandemic has impacted FL/L2 teaching METHODS. It will definitely have influenced our techniques and procedures of tele-instruction but the general theoretical paradigm defining much if not most of how we teach remains the same, doesn't it?
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on people and their walks of life around the world. Like other disciplines, it has had a major impact on language teaching and learning. For instance, because of the unpredictability begotten by COVID-19, language education has undergone a dramatic change in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Besides, the pandemic has created new educational and psychological challenges for educators to cope with to maintain students’ affect, foster their engagement, and ameliorate their achievement in online language education. The following articles could be of interest.
Ariyanti, A. (2020). EFL students’ challenges towards home learning policy during COVID-19 outbreak. IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics), 5(1), 167. https://doi.org/10.21093/ijeltal.v5i1.649
Day, T., Chang, I. C., Chung, C. K., Doolittle, W. E., Housel, J., & McDaniel, P. N. (2020). The immediate impact of COVID-19 on postsecondary teaching and learning. The Professional Geographer, 73(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2020.1823864
Yandell, J. (2020). Learning under lockdown: English teaching in the time of COVID-19. Changing English, 27(3), 262-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684x.2020.1779029
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I believe that the right question would have been:
How has Covid-19 impacted the EFL/ESL methods or approaches?
The answer is YES. How? In many different ways.
Perhaps some studies would help you:
Ahmadi, A., & Ilmiani, A. M. (2020). The Use of Teaching Media in Arabic Language Teaching During Covid-19 Pandemic. Dinamika Ilmu, 20(2), 307-322.
MacIntyre, P. D., Gregersen, T., & Mercer, S. (2020). Language teachers’ coping strategies during the Covid-19 conversion to online teaching: Correlations with stress, wellbeing and negative emotions. System, 94, 102352.
Moser, K. M., Wei, T., & Brenner, D. (2021). Remote teaching during COVID-19: Implications from a national survey of language educators. System, 97, 102431.
Yi, Y., & Jang, J. (2020). Envisioning possibilities amid the COVID‐19 pandemic: Implications from English language teaching in South Korea. TESOL Journal, 11(3).
Yes, the pandemic has changed a lot in language teaching, created some difficulties. But it also gave us the opportunity to seek and find new teaching methods.
The new learning settings, such as online and distance learning, raise questions on how to generate and maintain motivation of (foreign) language learners and teachers. So I think, Covid-19 has impacted the motivational aspects of language learning, as well as the motivational design of teaching processes.
Yes, it indeed has impacted language teaching because student-teacher interaction is limited specially in areas where internet connection is poor, although teachers are finding means to use different teaching approaches/methods to suit the current situation it is far from the usual classroom situation, I even find it hard to believe if students answer/feedback is genuine since most information is just a click away.
My situation is a little bit different. I'm not a foreign-language teacher, but I teach about the neuroscience of language acquisition and part of my class is learning an "unknown language" (Norwegian). I teach them Norwegian to give them the experience of a foreign language learner and we use very specific techniques and they learn why they are learning in that specific way. During the pandemic, I skipped that part of the class which was quite sad. Many students in the past had said that it was their favorite part of the class, even though it was only 10-15 minutes each time. The class included things like me being at the door when they came in, shaking their hand, and giving them a greeting in Norwegian. There was also the exercise where I would make a sound, any sound, and they would all copy together in a chorus, without knowing or caring if it even meant anything. I don't know how I could possibly do that on a Zoom call. I'm looking forward to getting back to the classroom.
I believe that the concept of teaching, in general, has radically changed. Language teaching has had the hardest blow. Language teaching depends on the four skills. With distance learning, these have turned into a mammoth task. It is very difficult to secure the language four skills with large groups mostly suffering because of the lack of infrastructure needed for any teaching.