2022
DOI: 10.1007/s42979-022-01323-6
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

To Teach or Not to Teach: An International Study of Language Teachers’ Experiences of Online Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract: Schools have been switching to online learning to ensure students’ learning continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a paucity of studies examining language teachers’ motivations and decisions for continuing online teaching in the future. This study aims at investigating the significant factors influencing language teachers’ motivations and decisions on online teaching. Based on the aim of this study, three research questions guided this study: (1) What was language teachers’ experience of on… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
3
1
1

Citation Types

0
6
0

Year Published

2022
2022
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
7

Relationship

0
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 7 publications
(6 citation statements)
references
References 58 publications
0
6
0
Order By: Relevance
“…However, insufficient class time and training opportunities are the main obstacles in the ICT integration process [28]. Important factors influencing language teachers' motivation and decisions to adopt online teaching in the future have been identified [40]. However, the results of these studies do not reflect specific disciplinary characteristics.…”
Section: Teachers' Views On Online Teachingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, insufficient class time and training opportunities are the main obstacles in the ICT integration process [28]. Important factors influencing language teachers' motivation and decisions to adopt online teaching in the future have been identified [40]. However, the results of these studies do not reflect specific disciplinary characteristics.…”
Section: Teachers' Views On Online Teachingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Senior students who had face-to-face relationships before the pandemic expressed their ability to communicate remotely, whereas first-year students struggled the hardest to build relationships remotely. Kwee [ 15 ], however, focused on teachers by investigating the incentives and the deterrents that impact language instructors' online teaching decisions. The research is based on three questions that should provide pertinent data on what teachers think of online education, what motivates them to continue teaching remotely, and what challenges force them to give up these courses.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The availability of necessary technology to facilitate remote teaching as well as institutional support in general was also related to more job satisfaction with online instruction in a study surveying 1844 teachers in Mexico across school levels (Reynoso et al, 2021). For some instructors, the shift to online remote language teaching was seen as a positive opportunity to try new approaches to teaching and new technology tools (Mueller & Oguro, 2021), and others felt that online teaching had increased their work efficacy (Kwee, 2022).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While some instructors noted that online teaching was less time consuming (Appel & Robbins, 2021;Kwee, 2022), and minimized materials having to be produced for in-class instruction (Santos et al, 2021), most teachers noted that online remote teaching was more time-intensive and increased their workload (Burgin et al, 2022;Kozhabayeva & Boivin, 2021;Lin & Zheng, 2015;MacIntyre et al, 2020;Zamborová et al, 2021). There were different opinions on whether shifting to remote online instruction presented an increase in workload for language instructors.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation