English as a foreign language student experiences of in-class and online writing courses

• Bensen Bostancı, Hanife ^[1] ; Ariannejad, Aida ^[1]
  1. [1] Near East University

     Near East University

     Chipre

     
• Localización: JETT, ISSN-e 1989-9572, Vol. 13, Vol. 1, 2022, págs. 237-248
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Online teaching especially in the Covid-19 pandemic era was made a must. Education institutions are now wiser and better prepared for any other outbreaks. Some courses are now still offered online and this raises the question to which type of teaching is more effective (in-class or online) with regards to the students’ opinions when teaching the writing skill. Taking this into account, this study sort to reveal the perspectives of English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ majoring in English language teaching at a private university in North Cyprus with regard to their experiences of a writing course designed in-class and online. During the online implementation of the course, the students were engaged in UZEBIM: a Moodle designed by the institution. A qualitative research design was employed to effectively reveal the aim of the study. Semi-structured interviews were administered to 17 participants after the online treatment. It was made evident from the results of this study that the majority of the students preferred online writing courses to in-class writing courses. The reasons behind their choices could be attributed to the students’ motivation, working in their own time and pace, and having illegible hand writing.