Planned online language education versus crisis‐prompted online language teaching: Lessons for the future

• Published in: Foreign language annals Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 380 - 392
• Main Authors: Gacs, Adam, Goertler, Senta, Spasova, Shannon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria Wiley-Blackwell 01.06.2020; American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Subjects: Computer Software; Conventional Instruction; Copyrights; COVID-19; Crisis Management; Curriculum Design; Disease Control; Disease Incidence; distance learning; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Educational Planning; Educational Quality; Expectation; Futures (of Society); Information Security; Language Acquisition; Language Tests; Online Courses; Outcomes of Education; Pandemics; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; teacher training; Teaching Methods; technology

Online (language) teaching has been found to be as effective as face‐to‐face (F2F) learning (Moneypenny & Aldrich 2016, J. Educators Online, 13, 105–174; Goertler & Gacs, 2018, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 51, 156–174). Online language teaching has different affordances and challen...