Emergency Online Teaching: Voices of Hong Kong CALL Lecturers

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Abstract

Few attentions were paid to the CALL teachers in community colleges in Hong Kong. This article presents a study of CALL teachers’ emotions and well-being of coping with emergency remote teaching (ERT) at a community college in Hong Kong SAR of China during the pandemic. This is a case study which investigated emergency CALL teaching design and technical preparation, synchronic and asynchronous online teaching and online assessment in the new context. The CALL teachers were largely concerned about the quality of delivery, students’ feedback, students’ learning outcome and privacy issues. This study mainly employs interviews in order to give vivid accounts of four CALL teachers’ inner voices. Data were coded and grouped into themes. Findings were reported in narrative accounts of representative lecturers. In addition, an in-depth thematic description was provided, and a model of emergency adjustment (EA) was proposed. It was found that, overall, the CALL teachers in the community college were largely stressed and over-loaded, and their physical conditions, especially eyesight was mostly impaired due to long term online activities. Meanwhile, the study also reported practical strategies that lecturers adopted to address difficulties and challenges arising during the pandemic. The study presents a conceptual model of “Emergency Adjustment” to help understand the experience, emotions and wellbeing of CALL teachers in community colleges in Hong Kong under the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. This research could make a significant contribution to the literature on EA and adaptation of CALL teachers in Hong Kong and elsewhere. In addition, using narrative accounts to present data could also contribute to methodological issues in studying teaching and learning in an emergency remote teaching (ERT) environment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook of CALL Teacher Education and Professional Development
Subtitle of host publicationVoices from Under-Represented Contexts
EditorsDara Tafazoli, Michelle Picard
Place of PublicationSingapore
PublisherSpringer Nature
Chapter12
Pages193-208
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)978-981-99-0514-0
ISBN (Print)978-981-99-0513-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

Publication series

NameHandbook of CALL Teacher Education and Professional Development

Keywords

  • adjustment, emergency remote teaching, job satisfaction, CALL teachers

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