 EMPIRICAL ASPECTS IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ONLINE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGESAlexandra Mä‚rginean ()
Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1, 107-120 Abstract: This paper starts by describing the wider context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the effects that it creates on the psyche – the paradox of combined passivity and a new type of dynamism and agency, the one reuniting a break in the pace of living mixed with a superior, extreme speed experienced in people’s lives, and, thirdly, that of creating presence in absence. We then link them with the narrower context of academia, online teaching and psychology of the new context, which we analyze from the double perspective of the teacher and the student. The method is to start empirically from some observations based on real time and real life contexts in the above-mentioned activity, to then work towards potential solutions for the encountered difficulties or problems. It is then a deductive approach, and we explain the rationale for it as matching the way things have occurred naturally in reality, given the anachronistic manner in which know-how had to suddenly have been a given, and was taken for granted, since there was no time (or next to no time) to follow the logical chronology of training and preparation before launching ourselves in the online activity. We call what we are looking at the psychology of the situation, in the wider acceptation of the term, as we deal with feelings, reactions and behavior. We point out the particularities of both the technical support of the online teaching (i.e. the Microsoft Teams platform and the specific way in which we used it) and the teaching of foreign languages. A great part of the study is dedicated to the matter of creating presence online, followed by a minimal query proving some related points, then an enumeration of other elements noticed throughout the online teaching activity. The conclusions sum up the observations made in the paper and draw again towards an interpretation of online teaching in the wider context of life in a time of general and marked crisis, converging back to the starting points of the discussion to come full circle. Date: 2020 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rau:jisomg:v:14:y:2020:i:1:p:107-120 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management from Romanian-American University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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