Online Class Observation and Conduction in English during the Outbreak of Covid-19

Abstract

The impending lockdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak has forced many educational institutions to offer online classes almost all over the world. On March 16, 2020 all the educational institutions were shut down in Bangladesh. According to the UGC, 63 out of 151 private and public universities started online classes after about two weeks. This project paper aims to present the online class scenario of English language teaching and learning during the outbreak of Covid-19 situation. The motive of the project is to examine how the teacher conducts the online class and how the students observed that in English during this pandemic situation. The online classes were not familiar enough before the Covid-19 outbreak. Though at tertiary level, the device is not up to the mark for which teachers and students both face some difficulties, this paper finds online education systems as one of the most effective as well as popular means of education due to the ensuing lockdown caused by Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. The teachers offered necessary worksheets, exercises to the students so that they could find all the relevant materials for their lesson properly. Few recommendations and findings have been given based on the observations and conduction of classes. Some strengths and weaknesses of the teachers are also remarked during the observations of the classes.