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Students’ Feedback on Teaching and Learning English for Specific Purposes Before, During, and After the Covid-19 Pandemic

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Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition (ICL 2022)

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Due to the covid-19 pandemic, great changes appeared in education in general and digital technologies played a substantial role in the process. The main objective of this research is to consider students’ feedback and opinions on teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in (a) the present form before schools were closed due to the pandemic, (b) the online distance form of instruction during the pandemic, and (c) the present form of instruction after the pandemic. Research questions focused on three areas: (1) what form(s) of instruction students preferred, (2) whether/how digital technologies contributed to the process of instruction, and (3) in which form of instruction they learned more. The ex-post-facto approach and mixed methodology were applied. Data were collected by questionnaire. It was available online for students of the upper secondary school for medical staff (N = 153) and advanced school for higher medical staff (N = 183). We expect that (1) the present form of instruction after the covid-19 pandemic will be appreciated; however, there will also be some supporters of online distance instruction; (2) it will be the present form that will allow students to learn more compared to online distance instruction; (3) both teachers and students will improve their digital skills during the pandemic so that technologies can be exploited to a wider extent in the present form of instruction after the pandemic.

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Faltynkova, L., Simonova, I., Kostolanyova, K. (2023). Students’ Feedback on Teaching and Learning English for Specific Purposes Before, During, and After the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26190-9_56

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