The Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) on Language Education

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) started to affect the education around the world in the winter of 2020, and each education level such as primary education, secondary education, and higher education had to adapt synchronous or asynchronous online learning emergently. This study will focus on particularly the rapid change in language teaching and learning. How the pandemic had an effect on language learners or teachers and language teaching methods or tools will be discussed in the light of the studies conducted from the beginning of the pandemic until now. Therefore, this study will be a theoretical study which summarizes the results of the studies, and the following questions will be examined in this review of literature: What is online learning? What are the differences between synchronous or asynchronous online learning? What kinds of digital applications, platforms, or teaching tools can be used in online learning?