Examining a Technology-Focused Language Teacher Community on Facebook during a Crisis Situation

Autor/in	Ito, Yurika
Titel	Examining a Technology-Focused Language Teacher Community on Facebook during a Crisis Situation
Quelle	In: Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 8 (2023), Artikel 1 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ito, Yurika)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1186/s40862-022-00159-0
Schlagwörter	Language Teachers; Communities of Practice; Social Media; Educational Technology; Crisis Management; COVID-19; Pandemics; Computer Mediated Communication; Discourse Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Community; Soziale Medien; Unterrichtsmedien; Krisenmanagement; Computerkonferenz; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	Due to the chaos and confusion caused by the sudden transition from face-to-face teaching to online and remote teaching in early 2020, numerous language teachers had no choice but to rely on online communities on social networking sites. The current study therefore examined how some language teachers were utilising online communities on Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing a mixed-methods approach, data were mainly collected through: (1) an eight-month observation of a technology-focused language teacher community on Facebook to identify different types of posts generated by its members before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 340); (2) a questionnaire to understand the community members' backgrounds and experiences of being in the community (n = 51); (3) semi-structured interviews with some of the questionnaire participants (n = 13); and (4) a post-interview questionnaire (n = 12) to get a better understanding of their responses. A content analysis of online posts and community members' responses suggest that language teacher communities on Facebook were supporting teachers during the stressful periods of the pandemic professionally and emotionally. The main findings are discussed in terms of the benefits and drawbacks of using online language teacher communities for professional purposes. The overall goal of the study is to offer much-needed answers on how pre-existing communities can be used to assist language teachers in times of a crisis. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01