Online college English education in Wuhan against the COVID-19 pandemic: Student and teacher readiness, challenges and implications.

ABSTRACT: Online education, including college English education, has been developing rapidly in the recent decade in China. Such aspects as e-readiness, benefits and challenges of online education were well-researched under normal situations, but fully online language teaching on a large-scale in emergencies may tell a different story. A survey of 2310 non-English-major college students and 149 English teachers from three types of twelve higher education institutions in Wuhan was conducted to evaluate their readiness for online English education during the COVID-19 pandemic, to figure out challenges encountered by them and to draw implications for future online college English education. Quantitative statistics gathered using two readiness scales adapted from previous studies showed that both cohort

SUBMITTER: Zou C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8486088 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature