The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching English Worldwide in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Edited By: Ferit Kılıçkaya, Joanna Kic-Drgas, Rachel Nahlen

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This book investigates the global response to teaching languages online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shares teachers' first-hand narratives on the challenges and opportunities they faced, presenting practical solutions and good practices from around the world.

This volume investigates the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic regarding teaching languages online. In this regard, it focuses on the effects of online/remote teaching…

This volume investigates the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic regarding teaching languages online. In this regard, it focuses on the effects of online/remote teaching on teachers and teacher educators, considering the challenges that they have faced, how they tried to deal with these challenges, and the opportunities that arose while teaching during the pandemic. The chapters include narratives by teachers working in different countries around the world, and present their first-hand suggestions for good practices and solutions. They also highlight various tools, techniques, and solutions specific to individual countries, but transferrable to other similar contexts around the world.

The book will be a valuable resource for pre- and in-service teachers, and teacher trainers involved in teaching English as a Foreign and Second Language, and will be of interest to practitioners who wish to understand multinational perspectives on online teaching, and its challenges and opportunities.

Ferit Kılıçkaya is a Visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and a teacher trainer at the Department of Foreign Language Education of Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey. His main areas of interest and publications include the possible beneficial and harmful effects of using technology in language teaching and learning practices, in addition to issues in language testing and evaluation, such as peer feedback, online quizzes, and washback.

Joanna Kic-Drgas is an Assistant Professor in Teaching Languages for Specific Purposes in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. She has ten years of experience in teaching languages for specific purposes and has authored and co-authored a number of papers focused on teaching methodology, intercultural communication, and LSP/ESP.

Rachel Nahlen graduated with a Master’s degree in TESOL from California State University, San Bernardino. After a year of working in administration, she decided to teach overseas, spending one year in Busan, South Korea teaching English to elementary school students. She keeps active in the TESOL community by presenting at, and attending, major conferences in the field.

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