Overview
- Discusses activities and approaches that started as emergency strategies
- Argues that the lessons learned from the rapid pivot to virtual learning should not be lost
- Examines numerous and varied tools of distance learning
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This edited book explores and illustrates successful practices for online assessment and community-building, based on the authors' own classroom practice during and in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic. The authors argue that what has happened during the coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed perspectives on language education, and that if the importance of using online teaching tools in the classroom was dimly understood before the crisis, the language teaching establishment has now fully realized their potential and must continue exploring this further, even as the option to return to in-person teaching becomes widespread. Ranging from online activities to course design, the volume presents a comprehensive outlook at distance learning in modern foreign languages. It does so by focusing on those two aspects that, within an emergency scenario, have proven most challenging, namely: how to assess students in a non-controlled environment and how to foster a sense of community from the confinement of our isolated learning spaces. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in Language Education, as well as teachers and teacher trainees.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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English as a Foreign Language: Italian Case Studies
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Practices in the Virtual Classroom
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Intercultural Competence and Community in Online Settings
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Conclusions
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
​Wissia Fiorucci is the Director of the Language Centre at the University of Kent, UK as well as the Director of Education and UG Students’ Experience for the Division of Arts and Humanities. She’s one of the two co-organisers of the Modern Languages Teaching Forum. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Education During the Pandemic
Book Subtitle: Rushing Online, Assessment and Community
Editors: Wissia Fiorucci
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35855-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35854-8Published: 28 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35857-9Published: 29 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35855-5Published: 27 October 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Education, general, Digital/New Media, Higher Education