English Language Teacher Professional Development During COVID-19 in Nepal

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has brought a big pedagogical shift in education across the board. In this context, teachers expected to be adaptable in the new situation in by familiarizing themselves to the emerging technology-driven pedagogy. This article explores how 102 English language teachers in Nepal prepared themselves to respond to COVID-19 by attending various professional development events organized between April and September 2020 by different professional forums and organizations. The results show that English teachers in Nepal attended three kinds of events that include training programs to learn technology, events to learn about the online resources for English language teaching and professional development events to enhance their professional skills. Participation in these events made English teachers digitally confident to run the classes online and increased awareness of the integration of online resources in English language teaching.

Korku, Çaresizlik, Sevgi, Nefret, Huzur: Duygusal Covid-19 Gelgitleri

“…This, in turn, helped me enjoy teaching online. These results corroborate the findings of previous studies in that as teachers became more digital literate, explored and actively used new methodologies and cooperated with colleagues and/or administration, they started to develop positive attitudes towards teaching online (e.g., Farrell & Stanclik, 2021;Gautam, 2020).…”

“…Despite the initial challenges, teachers were quick in adapting themselves to the new pedagogy. Those given the opportunity benefited from various professional development activities, which resulted in enhanced professional competence (Gautam, 2020). The transition also increased teachers' digital literacy skills as they ended up using multiple learning management systems, online lecturing tools and instructional software to conduct their lessons (Fitria, 2020).…”

Coping Strategies of University EFL Teachers for Online Instruction during COVID-19 in Nepal

“…During the pandemic, EFL teachers in Nepal majorly engaged in three kinds of activities to overcome the adversity brought by COVID-19: a.Training workshop to familiarize themselves with IT, b. Program for acquainting e-resources, c. PDT for promoting teaching skills (Gautam, 2020). These activities that were run online empowered teachers' pedagogic expertise, and skills in using ICT tools for real online teaching.…”

جائحة کوفید -19 وأثرها على تدریس اللغة الإنجلیزیة فی التعلیم العالی

“…Online learning, particularly the live one, is going to change the future of learning regarding the teaching methodology and interactivity (Wolf, 2016). The findings of a study conducted by Zhao and Ma (2020) revealed the importance of combining webcasting with face-to-face classroom teaching in higher education as it changes the teacher-student relationship so that the teacher is a service provider rather than the only source of information and the learner becomes knowledge builder and collaborator for lifelong The results obtained by Gautam (2020) showed that English teachers attended three kinds of events that include training programs to learn technology, events to learn about the online resources for English language teaching and professional development events to enhance their professional skills. Participation in these events made English teachers digitally confident to run the classes online and increased awareness of the integration of online resources in English language teaching.…”