The Implementation of the Proposed Teaching Methods in the Curricula of Language Courses during the Use of Online Teaching in the Period of Covid-19: Opinions and Attitudes of Greek Teachers

Abstract

Because of the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences, distance education and, in particular, "Online Education" (OE) was used in the educational systems of many countries, as in Greece. The main objective of this application was to keep students in touch with the educational reality, but also with the teaching and learning process. On this basis, the purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes and opinions of Greek Primary Education teachers and Secondary Education teachers' philologists regarding the implementation of the proposed methods of teaching language courses in the use of OE. Seven hundred and thirty-four teachers constituted the sample of the study. A structured questionnaire was used to carry out the research and collect the data and the main findings of the research can be summarized as follows: the teachers' attitudes and opinions regarding the correlation of the proposed teaching methods in the Curriculum - such as the possibility for all students to produce various types of spoken and written language and the units designed for the cultivation of literacy to have the form of an action plan (project), etc. - with the use of OE are approximately neutral, namely neither positive nor negative.

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“…Using the SPSS 28 statistical package, a reliability test was performed using Cronbach's Alpha for the questionnaire. For the whole scale, the Cronbach's Alpha factor is 0.838>0.7 (Tables 1 and 2) and is considered satisfactory for the reliability of the research instrument (Argyropoulou, 2018;Burns & Grove, 2001;Evangelou, 2023b ;Evangelou & Fykaris, 2023).…”

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“…A five -point Likert -type scale was used with the following options: 1= Not at all, 2= Slightly, 3= Moderately, 4= Very, 5= Extremely. Thus, the closer to 1 the average of a statement, the more negatively respondents rated it and the closer to 5 the more positively respondents rated it (Evangelou & Fykaris, 2023). In the variable -question (1) (Table 10) the mean is 3,81 (standard deviation 0.794), i.e.…”

“…The questionnaire used in this research was constructed on the Google Forms online platform because this allows it to be shared in a short period of time with the research subjects and allows us to have large samples of responses with relatively little additional effort (Evangelou & Fykaris, 2023;Robson & McCartan, 2015). In addition, this ensured the anonymity of the research subjects, which is a key element of the reliability of the research.…”

“…The reliability of the questionnaire was checked by Cronbach's Alpha reliability index and it was found that it has a value of a=0.838>0.7 in all thirty-seven variables (Table 1 and 2). Consequently, the questionnaire is considered reliable due to the satisfactory and high value of the index (7 variables -questions are analysed in this research) (Evangelou & Fykaris, 2023).…”

“…The table below (Table 10) presents the means and standard deviation of the variables, which is a measure of how much the values of the variable differ from their mean. In particular, a small deviation implies a high concentration of the values of the variable around the mean, while a large deviation implies a low concentration and a larger "spread" (Evangelou & Fykaris, 2023).…”