Sustainability of Pandemic Disruption in Call: The Case of English Studies

Anna Turula

doi:10.18290/rh237110sp-9

Published : 2023-11-24

Vol. 71 No. 10sp (2023)

Sustainability of Pandemic Disruption in Call: The Case of English Studies

Anna Turula

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3086-8591

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh237110sp-9

Abstract

The paper looks at CALL sustainability in English Studies examined from the ecological perspective, following Blin (2016) and Blin et al. (2016). The investigation is based on two small-scale studies. Study 1 is a diagnosis of teacher (N₁= 21) and student (N₂= 50) attitudes to online and blended classes at one Polish university. Study 2 is design-based. It describes several micro-innovations following the guidelines for education re-imagined (Fullan et al., 2020) and presents student (N₃= 23) attitudes to it.

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sustainable CALL, ecological perspective, education re-imagined: COVID-19 distance education, trwałość edukacji językowej wspomaganej komputerowo, perspektywa ekologiczna, edukacja wyobrażona na nowo, zdalna edukacja pandemiczna

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