Coping Strategies of University Teaching Staff With Difficulties in Managing Remote Learning Under Lockdown Related Stress

Samokhvalova, A.

doi:10.15405/epsbs.2020.10.04.5

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“…Besides all the negative consequences, the pandemic and the enforced period of lockdown have provided time for reflections about life. During 2020 and 2021 researchers from Kostroma State University, Russia, distributed the questionnaires among the teaching staff and students to understand the coping strategies they resorted to during the lockdown (Samokhvalova et al, 2020). Both groups demonstrated similar tendencies: 22.3% of teachers and 46% of students resort to creative activities to cope with stress.…”

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“…Some poets describe a trance of writing in which poets find shelter from uniformity and predictability (Haupt, 2004). Diana Raab (2019) mentions the ability of a poet to be tuned into internal and external landscapes due to acute powers of observation. Wassiliwzky et al (2017) see the connection between poetry and psychology from the reader's point of view and explain this connection through psychophysiology.…”

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Poetry as a Coping Instrument and a Teaching Tool

Sargsyan,

Zimina

2023

Arm. Fol. Angl.

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The paper seeks to revive the interest of teachers and learners in poetry reading and writing as a means to teach English at intermediate and advanced levels. The paper demonstrates the results of the authors’ classroom experience during the enforced lockdown of 2020 in integrating poetry into English language class. The paper looks at poetry as a teaching tool and a coping strategy for students facing the negative consequences of the pandemic. First, the authors analyse the COVID-related poetry in English and Russian. They identify the key emotions people had been experiencing during the pandemic by finding key words, symbols and stylistic devices. The inclusion of English and Russian pieces provides certain culture specific interpretations of the new reality. Further, the authors analyze poems written in English by their students and assess the creative activity in terms of a coping strategy. The authors conclude that, provided the students are given examples of various genres, the activity enables them to reconsider their attitude to the pandemic in a constructive way. In more general terms, the authors conclude that the regular inclusion of poetry practices in English language classes can create a healthy and dynamic atmosphere which in turn may contribute to enhancing the teaching efficiency.

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confidence: 99%