Pre-service English Language Teachers’ Readiness for Online Teaching

Year 2022, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 109 - 125, 19.12.2022

Ahmet Önal , Ceyda Küçükhayrat , Elif Doğanay

https://doi.org/10.35207/later.1129519

Cited By: 1

Abstract

As a consequence of the sudden global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, all the countries around the world, including Türkiye, had to adopt online education as a substitute for face-to-face education, thereby leading to a radical and unprecedented transformation. In this respect, pre-service teachers’ readiness for online teaching gained greater significance as they had to switch from face-to-face teaching to online teaching. Accordingly, this study aims to identify pre-service English language teachers’ (PELTs) readiness for online teaching. A qualitative research design was adopted in this research. The data were collected through an open-ended survey from 45 PELTs who study at the department of English language teaching at a state university in Türkiye. The technique of content analysis was employed for the analysis of the data gathered. The findings indicated that even though most of the PELTs perceived themselves as ready to teach online, they expected their department/faculty to provide them with a more structured and efficient training in terms of improving their technology integration skills into their instruction. Moreover, a great majority of the PELTs expressed their worries about insufficient technological equipment and technical problems in their future classrooms.

Keywords

Online Teaching, Readiness, Pre-service English Language Teachers

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