Topic Sentence
The COVID-19 has disturbed and crushed many processes in education, and there is a need to investigate whether online education reduces high school students’ language learning efficiency.
Agung, Antonius Setyawan Nur, et al. “Students’ Perception of Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study on the English Students of STKIP Pamane Talino.” Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020, pp. 225-235. Web.
Agung and his team are studying how college students perceive distant learning of the English language and the impact of this approach on their academic performance. They conclude that the quality of the Internet connection, the availability of digital educational materials, and software compatibility will affect students’ learning efficiency of languages. The researchers analyze higher education students, including first-year ones, who can be considered yesterday’s high school students, which provides relevance to the announced topic.
Butnaru, Gina Ionela, et al. “The Effectiveness of Online Education during Covid 19 Pandemic — A Comparative Analysis between the Perceptions of Academic Students and High School Students from Romania.” Sustainability, vol. 13, no. 9, 2021, 1-20. Web.
Butnaru et al. are another group of researchers interested in the effectiveness of online educative measures in high schoolers in the COVID-19 era. They conclude that the students’ proficiency in software, the technical limits of their hardware, and the competence of teachers in online teaching affect the academic performance of pupils. The article contains many hypotheses that can help develop initiatives to improve the quality of online language courses for high schoolers.
Hong, Jon-Chao, et al. “High School Students’ Online Learning Ineffectiveness in Experimental Courses During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, no. 738695, 2021, pp. 1-9. Web.
In their article, Hong and his teammates investigate how online science courses affect high school students’ ability to accept, learn, and understand new knowledge through digital tools. The critical insight of this study is the discovery of a negative relationship between the number of online courses provided to high school learners and online learning ineffectiveness. Although this work does not cover the topic of language education, its revelations can provide a theoretical basis for developing enhancement initiatives for digital teaching methods.
Nartiningrum, Novrika, and Arif Nugroho. “Online Learning amidst Global Pandemic: EFL Students’ Challenges, Suggestions, and Needed Materials.” Academic Journal of English Language and Education, vol. 4, no. 2, 2020, pp. 115-140. Web.
An academic paper by Nartiningrum and Nugroho presents another study in the setting of an educational institution in Southeast Asia. When researching the state of online English as Foreign Language classes, they found that factors such as Internet connection instability and less direct integration reduce their access to language teaching programs and interfere with attending those. Participants in this study include adolescents aged 18, which makes this study partially relevant to the proposed topic.
Tao, Jian, and Xuesong Andy Gao. “Teaching and Learning Languages Online: Challenges and Responses.” System, vol. 107, 2022, pp. 1-9. Web.
Scholar article by Tao and Gao is a systematic review of recent academic papers on digital language learning that emerged after the COVID-19 outbreak. A duo of analysts analyzes teachers’ and pupils’ perspectives and perceptions and institutional and technical challenges and opportunities. High school students are not explicitly discussed, but what makes this article useful for future research is the all-encompassing nature of Tao and Gao’s work.