FROM COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING TO EMERGENCY REMOTE LANGUAGE TEACHING: A CHANGE IN THE TEACHING PARADIGM
FROM COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING TO EMERGENCY REMOTE LANGUAGE TEACHING: A CHANGE IN THE TEACHING PARADIGM
Author(s): Lorena Clara Mihăeș, Anda DimitriuSubject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Distance learning / e-learning, Pedagogy
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: ESP; Google Classroom; Microsoft Teams; Zoom; Online Teaching Methodology;
Summary/Abstract: The shift to online instruction in March 2020 was sudden and posed a number of problems to the ESP course instructors in terms of technology, pedagogy and assessment of students’ performance. Although computer assistance has long been used in teaching English for Specific Purposes at the University of Bucharest, the computer was not the medium of instruction, nor was the course content digitalised. As for the exams, they were either pen-and-paper based or oral examinations, therefore the computer was hardly ever used. This article is an investigation into the solutions that have been adopted during the pandemic, which may lay the foundations for successful standards for a modern blended ESP course, where computer-mediated activities are given pride of place.
Journal: Conference proceedings of »eLearning and Software for Education« (eLSE)
- Issue Year: 18/2022
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 264-270
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
