Teacher Beliefs and Practices Regarding Online English Language (Speaking, Listening) Learning

Abstract

This study concerned with during this pandemic situation when all the institutions are closed what are the Teacher beliefs and practices regarding online English language (speaking, listening) learning. Moreover, it also focuses on how teacher takes class, the types of problem they face, how they provide feedback, how they interact with the students, etc. As the system of an online class or technology-based online language class is new in the field of education. For this reason, both the students and teachers face some difficulties to adjust this new learning system. Also, I want to find out how students are adapting and engaging themselves in the online language learning class, the advantages they are getting from the online class, the problems they are facing. I use the qualitative research method for this research paper. The study is conduct among six teachers and thirteen students of tertiary level students from various private universities of Bangladesh. For this research, I made an opinion based semi-structure questionnaire. I collected my data by interviewing them individually. After analyzing the data both the teachers and the students face some difficulties due to online language learning classes. Like, electricity issues, internet issues, lack of students attendance, lack of teacher-student interaction, monotonous, proper feedback etc. Finally, it also recommended some suggestions to overcome their problems during this online language learning