Challenges and Strategies of In-Service EFL Teachers in Online Language Teaching: A Saudi Arabian Case Study

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Khateeb, Ahmed Al and Son, Jeong-Bae. 2023. "Challenges and Strategies of In-Service EFL Teachers in Online Language Teaching: A Saudi Arabian Case Study." Computers in the Schools. https://doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2023.2276720
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Challenges and Strategies of In-Service EFL Teachers in Online Language Teaching: A Saudi Arabian Case Study

ERA Journal ID20296
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsKhateeb, Ahmed Al and Son, Jeong-Bae
Journal TitleComputers in the Schools
Number of Pages19
Year2023
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Place of PublicationUnited States
ISSN0738-0569
1528-7033
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2023.2276720
Web Address (URL)https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07380569.2023.2276720
Abstract

The outbreak of COVID-19 has greatly influenced conventional language learning and teaching, leading to a rapid transformation toward online learning and teaching. In many places, language learners and teachers experienced a sudden shift to online instruction with limited resources and inadequate preparation. This study examines the challenges and strategies that Saudi Arabian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers experienced in online language teaching and explores how they dealt with such challenges for the implementation of online language teaching. It also identifies ways to help language teachers be more effective in online teaching and better respond to emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. The verification of these challenges and strategies in online settings provides insights into how to teach languages better online. The results of the study indicate that online language teaching was accepted as a professional practice, which has benefits such as flexibility and accessibility, but also poses pedagogical and technical issues. Online language teaching requires context-specific strategies, including maintaining student motivation and continuing professional development.

KeywordsOnline language teaching; English as a foreign language; in-service teachers; challenges; strategies
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020390108. LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy
390405. Educational technology and computing
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Byline AffiliationsKing Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
University of Southern Queensland
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