Teachers’ Perceptions Analysis on Students’ Emotions in Virtual Classes during COVID19 Pandemic: A Lexical Availability Approach

Pedro Salcedo-Lagos, Sergio Morales-Candia, Karina Fuentes-Riffo, Susan Rivera-Robles and Cristian Sanhueza-Campos
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Pedro Salcedo-Lagos: Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4070386, Chile
Sergio Morales-Candia: Facultad de Educación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2374631, Chile
Karina Fuentes-Riffo: Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4070386, Chile
Susan Rivera-Robles: Facultad de Educación, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
Cristian Sanhueza-Campos: Escuela de Educación, Universidad de Concepción, Los Ángeles 4451032, Chile

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-21

Abstract: Virtual education has grown exponentially in the past year due to the global COVID19 pandemic. In this context, the exploration of teachers’ perceptions of their students’ emotions when using ICTs has become more relevant. The aim of this study was two-fold, on the one hand, to analyze how teachers perceived their students’ emotions and, on the other hand, to analyze the emotions teachers wanted to modulate in their students when using ICTs. To this end, an interpretative and comparative study was implemented using the Lexical Availability technique. The sample was formed by 178 Chilean teachers who took a lexical availability test. The analysis included general vocabulary through network graphs and a comparison across gender, academic background, school type and knowledge area. The results made it possible to identify the latent mental lexicon of teachers, revealing significant differences in the perception of emotions, according to gender and ICTs use and according to gender and knowledge area. The study further projects the potential of lexical availability to determine the emotions required by Affective Informatics in the adaptability of educational systems and to make adjustments to the instructional design.

Keywords: information technologies; emotions; online education; lexical availability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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