Sudden Shift to Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Arabic at Qatar University

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Foreign Countries; COVID-19; Pandemics; Higher Education; Student Attitudes; School Closing; Online Courses; Educational Technology; Technology Uses in Education; Educational Practices; Second Language Instruction; Distance Education

The present chapter focuses on the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the higher education sector, presenting the case of the Arabic for Non-Native Speakers Center (ANNS) at Qatar University. It evaluates what actions the center has undertaken to pledge its integrity to the cause of higher education throughout the pandemic and considers a sample of students' responses to a survey about the approaches and strategies adopted when learning shifted online. In order to speak to the book project rationale, the questions herein addressed concentrate on what has changed in language teaching practices as a result of COVID-19; on which changes might become permanent changes and which are expected to return to their pre-pandemic conditions; on reconsidered language pedagogy and new educational purposes and on informational progress for remote teaching. The chapter also aims to identify a number of techniques to be researched further. [For the complete volume, "The World Universities' Response to COVID-19: Remote Online Language Teaching," see ED614006.]

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2021

ED614853