Emergency Remote Teaching in Language Education

Abstract

This chapter reviews research studies conducted on emergency remote teaching in foreign language education in higher education and presents the results of the qualitative study which evaluates the effectiveness of emergency remote teaching in English as a foreign language instruction. The data were elicited from 15 undergraduate students studying at the English language teaching departments in North Cyprus. The textual data gathered through self-reports revealed that a great majority of the participants were in favor of hybrid instruction after the pandemic. The rationale behind this result was found to be the fact that both in-person and online education had their own merits and demerits in their own way and that hybrid education had a potential to exploit the merits while avoiding the demerits. It was an unexpected result to find that the participants were in favor of the digitalization of language education.