The pandemic has prevented language learners worldwide from getting the right education. English is just one of those subjects in which this has been remarkably significant due to the lack of classroom interaction and the reduced amount of input students have received. The current study explores 14 EFL teachers’ reflections on the main challenges they have been facing. Their responses were given in an open-ended survey. The Content Analysis carry out aimed at identifying the main constraints primary and secondary EFL teachers have faced while teaching during the first months of the pandemic. It also addresses the possible solutions they have used to address the input scarcity due to the current situation. The paper stresses that it is clear the role that input and strategies have in language learning. The paper concludes that the gap in learning may require additional teaching support in the incoming years. Keywords: Covid-19; emotional intelligence; online learning; teacher’s reflections.
IV ResumenEl presente artículo forma parte de la investigación desarrollada en el proyecto Paulex Universitas con la intención de obtener información sobre los ítems más aceptados por los profesores de 2º de Bachillerato de cara al inicio de la fase de pruebas para examinar la viabilidad de la puesta en funcionamiento de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad (PAU) asistida por ordenador en España y, más específicamente, los siguientes aspectos: la posibilidad de automatización de la prueba, las tipologías de ejercicios más populares entre los profesores y la relación entre las mismas. Un total de 214 profesores respondieron a un cuestionario diseñado según el método Delphi, destinado a averiguar la tipología de ejercicios preferida en relación a las destrezas a evaluar. En lo referente a la automatización de la prueba, los datos obtenidos muestran la aceptación de una nueva versión del test de inglés de la PAU por parte de los profesores. En cuanto a las tipologías de ejercicios, las preferidas por los docentes son ejercicios de respuesta abierta y ejercicios de selección múltiple. Por su parte, en lo que respecta a la relación entre las distintas tipologías de ejercicios, no se aprecia una tendencia clara acerca de las las tareas: si deben ser comunicativas o, por el contrario, si deben ir dirigidas hacia la obtención de información objetiva. Por último, a pesar de sus reservas, los profesores consideran que la utilización de ordenadores sería un buen sistema para realizar el examen en su conjunto, independientemente del tipo de destrezas que se evalúen. Palabras claveActitudes de los profesores -Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad (PAU) -Evaluación asistida por ordenador -Inglés como lengua extranjera -Tipología de ejercicios.
Key words:Computer-based language testing, oral assessment, second language testing.Este estudio analiza la opinión de los candidatos sobre un examen oral con ordenador para averiguar los aspectos que consideran más relevantes en la evaluación oral a través de las nuevas tecnologías y explorar las principales ventajas y desventajas de este tipo de pruebas comparadas con pruebas orales con evaluadores humanos. Se distribuyó un pequeño cuestionario a 80 candidatos que realizaron el examen oral aptis en la Universidad de Alcalá en abril de 2016. Los resultados revelan que los candidatos consideran que las pruebas orales con ordenador son válidas y adecuadas para la evaluación de la competencia oral. Curiosamente, los datos demuestran que las características personales de los candidatos juegan un papel primordial en la elección del método de evaluación más idóneo.Palabras clave: evaluación de lenguas a través del ordenador, evaluación de la destreza oral, evaluación de segundas lenguas.
The sudden emergence of Covid-19 which began in March 2020 up to these days in December 2021 has brought to us, overall, new habits of living and, more specifically, educators as well as language instructors from all over the world have had the urgent need to rapidly change teaching habits so as to adapt to an online teaching due to this pandemic. This special issue offers the readers new approaches and trends on the teaching and learning process of English as a foreign language through various indeed interesting experiments which have taken place at different educational setting during the forced lockdown caused by the pandemic crisis of the Covid -19.The issue begins with the editorial article headlined Covid-19: an impromptu or trend-setting factor in research on language and education? (by L. Raitskaya and E. Tikhonova).We will try to summarize the different papers from this issue on ELT during the Covid-19 pandemic. Firstly, we start with an overview of the eleven research scientific papers. The first paper headlined Dealing with Emergency Remote Teaching: The Case of Pre-Service English Language Teachers in Turkey by R. Ağçam, Y.E. Akbana, and S. Rathert, offers a qualitative study in which the perceptions of a group of 67 pre-service English language teachers on Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) practices were explored. An interview form and a focus group interview were chosen to obtain findings. The obtained data in this research proved that the majority of the participating student preferred face-to-face lessons than ERT emerged due to the pandemic. The authors of this study focus on the need to help both students and instructors by offering strategies and instructions on how to organise learning and teaching. Ağçam, Akbana, and Rathert conclude by advising the different ELT stakeholders to take advantage of ERT's opportunities. Secondly, the article Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: How Has this new Situation Affected Students'Oral Communication Skills? by E. Alcalde-Peñalver and J. García-Laborda investigated the difficulties faced by students learning English within the online learning context, paying special attention to oral communication skills. For this purpose, the authors utilized an exploratory survey research design with the aid of a questionnaire. The findings of this research proved that learners highlighted technical problems as some of the main challenges, and they did not feel completely comfortable in the online learning environment because oral communication was completely absent. The participating students also found group video or audio calls to be the most useful tool for enhancing oral communication in English.
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