The effects of using the Microsoft Teams application interface during an online EFL course
The effects of using the Microsoft Teams application interface during an online EFL course
Author(s): Zrinka FIŠERSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Albanian Society for the Study of English
Keywords: COVID‐19; e‐learning, EFL; Microsoft Teams; new paradigm;
Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic rendered online, distant, or e-learning almost mandatory, which oriented tertiary-level lecturers and authors towards the use of a variety of applications necessary to conduct and participate in the courses delivered in an online learning and teaching setting. In an aspiration to comprehend the effects of using the Microsoft Teams meetings as a teaching aid when assigning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course exercises at the University of Slavonski Brod in Croatia, considering learner-instructor (lecturer)-interface interaction more profoundly, the author has conducted pilot research, aiming to define a premise on which to base further investigation. Research suggests that an informal EFL learning setting was established thanks to the Microsoft Teams application’s chat options, that students’ reluctance to use the webcams was deliberate, and that the students’ observation of the lecturer has indeed advanced the overall learning conditions.
Journal: in esse: English Studies in Albania
- Issue Year: 14/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 18-33
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English