English as a Foreign Language Student Experiences of In-Class and Online Writing Courses
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Universidad de Granada
Materia
Online In-class Writing courses English as a foreign language Learner perceptions
Date
2022-01-28Referencia bibliográfica
Hanife Bensen Bostanci , Aida Ariannejad (2022). English as a Foreign Language Student Experiences of In-Class and Online Writing Courses Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers, Vol. 13(1). 237– 248. DOI: [10.47750/jett.2022.13.01.026]
Résumé
Online teaching especially in the Covid-19 pandemic era was made a must. Education institutions
shifted from face to face to online instruction. This shift raises the question to which type of writing
instruction is preferred by English as a foreign language (EFL) students. Taking this into account, this
study sort to reveal the perspectives of university students majoring in the English language teaching
(ELT) department in a private university in North Cyprus with regard to their experiences of writing
courses designed both in-class and online. During the online implementation of the course, the
students were engaged in UZEBIM: a Moodle designed by the institution. To be able to achieve the
aim of the study a qualitative research design was employed. Two semesters were allocated in which
the first was taught face to face and the second online. Both courses employed the same methodology
to teach writing. To collect data, semi-structured interviews were administered to 17 participants after
the online implementation of the writing course. It was made evident from the results of the study
that the majority of the students preferred online writing courses to in-class (face to face). The reasons
behind their choices could be attributed to the students’ motivation, working in their own time and
pace, and having illegible hand writing.