Category: Distance / Online Learning
Assessing Online Study Abroad: Assessing Japanese University Students’ Online Study Abroad and the Future of Study Abroad Post-Corona
This study reflects on the experiences of students and instructors on the online international exchange program at a Japanese university during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a mixed methods approach incorporating both survey and interview data, I report on student and instructor perceptions and reflections of distance learning experiences of courses held online at a Japanese …
The Professional Identity and Roles of CALL Teachers: Issues and Evolution
Professional teachers’ identity is a combination of instructional goals, pedagogical decisions, based on integrating their theoretical and pedagogical knowledge, values, and contextual features of their classroom (Pennington & Richards, 2016). It is a context-related concept, strictly connected to the environment (Shafiee et al. 2022), physical or virtual classroom, where the teaching process takes place. During …
Online Language Learning in the Time of COVID: Instructor and Student Perspectives
While computer assisted language learning has been a long-established form of instruction (Chapelle, 2005; Lim & Aryadoust, 2022), this mode of learning surged during the recent pandemic when in-person instruction was rapidly shifted online. While the process of planning for online language instruction has been studied in detail (Pawan et al., 2016), the sudden migration …
Digital Storytelling for Better Language Learning in a Post Pandemic World
The purpose of this research is to compare digital storytelling (DST) in a remote course, held in the Spring term of 2022 during the pandemic, with that of a traditional face to face (F2F) course, held in the Fall term of 2019 before the pandemic, in terms of student learning motivation. The findings suggest how …