Online Teaching Experiences of ELT Instructors

Authors : Burcu ŞENER, İnci SAĞLAM ERTEM, Ahmet MEÇ

Pages : 340-362

Doi:10.31681/jetol.770418

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Publication Date : 2020-09-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Online teaching can be regarded as a central phenomenon among researchers, educators and students globally. Especially after the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, almost all the institutions around the world felt the necessity to deliver such rapid online education to their students, possibly without sufficient preparation. Considering the current educational situation, this study was conducted with 39 participants at a private university in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of this study is to explore the perceptions of English instructors about online teaching, in terms of the technical, pedagogical and institutional problems they have experienced; therefore, a survey including both Likert Scale and open-ended questions were used to explore these issues in depth. The study has managed to add relevant knowledge to the literature in terms of instructor perceptions of online teaching.
Keywords : online education, perceptions about online teaching, online classroom management, online classroom interaction, technical problems in online teaching, emergency remote teaching, pedagogical issues in online teaching, virtual classrooms, COVID 19 outbreak