Teaching Languages Remotely
The COVID-19 pandemic forced countless colleges and universities worldwide to switch to online teaching, and many language instructors delivered their course content the usual way but remotely. This synchronous solution was motivated by the urgency of the situation but also by the common belief tha...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2022-10-01
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced countless colleges and universities worldwide to switch to online teaching, and many language instructors delivered their course content the usual way but remotely. This synchronous solution was motivated by the urgency of the situation but also by the common belief that languages cannot be learned efficiently without the simultaneous presence of the teacher and other learners. However, new technologies at our disposal increasingly dispel this myth by rendering asynchronous language teaching very efficient despite a few challenges. This paper presents data from Université TÉLUQ, the world's oldest French-speaking distance university, offering remote language courses for more than 40 years in a minority setting, namely a French-speaking province in English-speaking North America. We present challenges posed by teaching asynchronously in remote settings and various solutions to circumvent or overcome these challenges.
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| spelling | doaj.art-27cdb84296a8457c881262ff8112ad0f2022-12-22T03:54:12ZengCracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language StudiesPółrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium2543-78442022-10-017110.7592/Tertium.2022.7.1.227Teaching Languages RemotelyFrancois Pichette0Nancy Gagné1Université Teluq, CanadaUniversité Teluq, Canada The COVID-19 pandemic forced countless colleges and universities worldwide to switch to online teaching, and many language instructors delivered their course content the usual way but remotely. This synchronous solution was motivated by the urgency of the situation but also by the common belief that languages cannot be learned efficiently without the simultaneous presence of the teacher and other learners. However, new technologies at our disposal increasingly dispel this myth by rendering asynchronous language teaching very efficient despite a few challenges. This paper presents data from Université TÉLUQ, the world's oldest French-speaking distance university, offering remote language courses for more than 40 years in a minority setting, namely a French-speaking province in English-speaking North America. We present challenges posed by teaching asynchronously in remote settings and various solutions to circumvent or overcome these challenges. https://journal.tertium.edu.pl/JaK/article/view/227second language teachingonline language teaching |
| spellingShingle | Francois Pichette Nancy Gagné Teaching Languages Remotely Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium second language teaching online language teaching |
| title | Teaching Languages Remotely |
| title_full | Teaching Languages Remotely |
| title_fullStr | Teaching Languages Remotely |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching Languages Remotely |
| title_short | Teaching Languages Remotely |
| title_sort | teaching languages remotely |
| topic | second language teaching online language teaching |
| url | https://journal.tertium.edu.pl/JaK/article/view/227 |
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