Dystans i bliskość wykładowcy na zajęciach językowych prowadzonych zdalnie: perspektywa studenta
Teacher immediacy and distance in online language learning: the students’ perspective

Author(s): Jolanta Łącka-Badura
Subject(s): Education, Foreign languages learning, Language acquisition, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: foreign language teaching; online learning; immediacy behaviours; interpersonal relations
Summary/Abstract: The paper is concerned with the problem of distance and immediacy in teacherstudent relationships in online language classes at the tertiary level. Drawing on the literaturę review as well as her own professional experience, the author presents strategies that teachers can use to reduce the psychological distance and build an atmosphere of immediacy in online language learning. The strategies overlap – to a large extent – with those recommended for traditional (offline) teaching, but they also encompass a number of strategies specific to virtual environments (responding promptly to students’ questions and comments posted online, ensuring that teacher’s face is clearly visible on the screen, using emoticons, etc.). The article also reports on the results of a study conducted among students of the University of Economics in Katowice, aiming to investigate what types of teacher immediacy behaviours are perceived by the students as most significant and desirable in virtual language classes.

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