Going Virtual, Staying Face-to-Face: Trajectory of ELT Classes during the Pandemic

Autor/in	Nkemleke, Daniel A.
Titel	Going Virtual, Staying Face-to-Face: Trajectory of ELT Classes during the Pandemic
Quelle	(2021), (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nkemleke, Daniel A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Online Courses; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Higher Education; Teaching Methods; Access to Computers; Conventional Instruction; Foreign Countries; College Students; College Faculty; Interaction; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Cameroon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Online course; Online-Kurs; Unterrichtsmedien; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Interaktion; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Kamerun
Abstract	COVID-19 caught everyone by surprise, and even the most advanced higher education institutions around the world probably had challenges moving from Face-to-Face (F2F) to online teaching and learning. For Cameroon, where internet connectivity is still very low, both teachers and students have had a hard time switching to virtual classrooms. This chapter discusses the challenges they have faced in navigating this trajectory in the department of English at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) of the University of Yaoundé 1 (UYI) during the period of lockdown. Based on the experience of 14 teachers who grappled with 14 online courses and F2F mode, the study concludes that due to students' inability to access the internet with ease, any online teaching/learning at ENS has to be largely complemented with F2F activities. [For the complete volume, "The World Universities' Response to COVID-19: Remote Online Language Teaching," see ED614006.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01