How english language instructors coped with the onset of the pandemic and remote language teaching: a case study

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Erkan, Gökçe
Balbay, Seher

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This paper reports on the emergency remote education period of the instructors at the School of Foreign Languages of a Turkish state university. The university the study was conducted in, along with all other higher education institutions in Turkey, switched to online education with the sudden spread of the COVID 19 pandemic. To evaluate how the instructors dealt with this sudden transition, 110 participants teaching at the School of Foreign Languages completed an online survey at the end of the emergency remote education academic semester. Thereafter 24 of them volunteered to be interviewed about their experiences in more detail. The findings reveal that most instructors had some apprehension and difficulty in making the transition to online teaching, yet still considered themselves competent in dealing with the unexpected and unprepared teaching medium. Many thought the experience had been valuable to their personal development and referred to aspects of online education that will be integral to their professional development. It was observed that the instructors also repeatedly expressed that they perceived the experience as one that interaction among colleagues benefitted them most both in developing their digital skills and in providing them with psychological support.

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Emergency remote teaching, Distance education, Pandemic period language education, Adaptation to educational technology, Afet durumu eğitimi, Uzaktan eğitim, Pandemi dönemi dil eğitimi, Eğitim teknolojilerine uyum

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http://dx.doi.org/10.17240/aibuefd.2021..-912877
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/94987

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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https://doi.org/10.17240/aibuefd.2021..-912877

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G. Erkan and S. Balbay, “How english language instructors coped with the onset of the pandemic and remote language teaching: a case study,” Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1198–1211, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.17240/aibuefd.2021..-912877.