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Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing Online English Courses in Iranian Public and Private Schools

عنوان مقاله: Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing Online English Courses in Iranian Public and Private Schools
شناسه ملی مقاله: JR_RALS-15-1_002
منتشر شده در در سال 1403
مشخصات نویسندگان مقاله:

Ali Derakhshan - Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran
Farzaneh Shakki - Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran

خلاصه مقاله:
With the rapid growth of technology, face-to-face education has been overshadowed by virtual or online education. The increasing popularity of this educational mode has inspired a huge number of researchers worldwide to study its potential challenges and opportunities in different educational contexts. Nonetheless, the benefits and obstacles of online English courses in school contexts have rarely been explored, which warrants further empirical investigations into this subject. In an endeavor to narrow this lacuna, the present inquiry scrutinized the opportunities and challenges of implementing online English courses in Iranian middle schools. In doing this, the electronic version of a researcher-developed questionnaire was distributed among a sample (N = ۳۱۵) of administrators, teachers, students, and parents recruited from different public and private schools in Iran. Respondents’ answers to the open-ended questionnaire were analyzed using MAXQDA. The data analysis resulted in ۳ higher-order themes and ۱۷ subthemes. The examination of the generated themes revealed that virtual education’s challenges outweighed its benefits. The study outcomes displayed the majority of participants perceived pedagogical and technical factors as the most important challenges of virtual courses. The outcomes also demonstrated that most respondents mentioned the possibility of reviewing the course content and accessibility of educational tools and resources as ۲ major benefits of virtual courses. The study’s implications for administrators, teachers, students, and parents are also discussed.

کلمات کلیدی:
Virtual education, Virtual Courses, Online English Courses, Challenges and Opportunities, Middle School

صفحه اختصاصی مقاله و دریافت فایل کامل: https://civilica.com/doc/1970614/