The Challenges of Online English Language Teaching From EFL Instructors’ Point of View in KKU, Tehama Campus During COVID 19 Period
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1204.04Keywords:
challenges, online, EFL, COVID19Abstract
Spreading of COVID 19 in the whole world affected all fields of life in general and education in specific; this study aims at finding out the challenges of online teaching from EFL instructors' point of view at KKU/ Tehama campus during the COVID 19 period in the field of 1- Quality of teaching.2 Students' interaction. 3- Results of Authentic learning outcome. 4- Instructors’ planning and correction load 5- Macro and Micro skills. A questionnaire is used to collect the data from instructors who work in Tehama. The researchers used the descriptive-analytical approach. Data were analyzed using SPSS. The finding of this study reflected many challenges of online teaching from Instructors perspectives, such as the difficulty of reflecting desired learning outcomes due to multiple attempts and students cheating, which results in high marks in grading, interaction problems between instructors and students, multi-tasks that are added to instructors burden beside many other challenges that affect EFL teaching.
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