Teaching English online demands skills beyond the physical classroom
In short: Researchers surveyed 75 university-level English teachers who had shifted to live online lessons during the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that beyond the interactional skills used in physical classrooms, teachers needed a further three abilities to keep students engaged through a screen.
Moving lessons onto video-calling platforms changes how teachers can read a room, give instructions, and keep a conversation flowing. The survey pointed to three added skills: handling the technology itself, running a virtual class space, and adjusting the back-and-forth of conversation to suit an online setting.
Because the study relied on teachers' self-reports from one mixed-method survey of a specific group, the findings may not extend to other teachers, subjects, or online platforms.
Why it matters: Teaching language lessons online isn't just classroom teaching moved to a screen; it calls for its own set of skills.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: Research: Moorhouse et al. (2021). E-Classroom Interactional Competencies: Mediating and Assisting Language Learning During Synchronous Online Lessons. RELC Journal.
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