Students’ Attitudes Towards English Classes Delivered via TRT-EBA TV and the Education Information Network (EBA) during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The adoption of online learning mode by education institutions across the globe has exponentially increased after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the education institutions in Türkiye too shifted from in-person instruction to online learning, course satisfaction became one of the emerging concerns among the stakeholders., Therefore, this quantitative study aims to investigate the attitudes of 7th and 8th graders towards English classes delivered via EBA-ZOOM and TRT-EBA TV during the emergency remote teaching process amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The data for this study were collected from 204 secondary school students via a Likert scale. The findings revealed that most of the participants had positive attitudes toward learning English in an emergency-remote learning environment, yet they faced a number of challenges and inconveniences caused by the process. Although slight differences were observed among the variables—gender, class and province—no significant difference was found. This study has implications for education stakeholders.