Toward a new normal in foreign language classrooms
Attitudes and perceptions of committed learners of Chinese towards CALL
Hsuan-Ying Liu | Bard High School Early College DC
Although Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is relied upon heavily in these disruptive times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about committed learners’ reactions to CALL as they actively voiced their questions and concerns during crisis-prompted remote learning. Employing a qualitative research method, findings reveal that their attitudes toward remote learning were ambivalent. While they viewed online tools as useful learning resources, they also expressed hesitation in adopting them. Meanwhile, they welcomed innovative ad hoc curriculum quickly developed by the instructor; however, the innovative curriculum was also viewed as less organized. These findings shed light on pedagogical implications for world language education in higher education and urge researchers to further investigate how remote language teaching and learning would affect committed students during the new normal times as foreign language enrollments continue to decline.
Keywords: perceptions, attitudes, computer-assis ted language learning, Chinese as a foreign language, COVID-19 pandemic
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Literature review
- 2.1Online world languages teaching and learning during the pandemic
- 2.2Perceptions and attitudes of world languages learners during the pandemic
- 3.Methodology
- 3.1The context of this study
- 3.2Participants
- 3.3Data collection
- 3.4Data analysis
- 4.Findings
- 4.1Perceived challenges: Zoom meetings, e-textbook and e-workbook, and tutoring
- 4.2Perceived advantages
- 4.3Changing attitudes toward a new normal
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Pedagogical implications and future research directions
- 7.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
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References
Published online: 10 January 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/csl.21014.liu
https://doi.org/10.1075/csl.21014.liu
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