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Student Performance and Satisfaction in Online vs. Offline English Course: Do Delivery and Exam Format Matter?

  • Modern English Education
  • Abbr : MEESO
  • 2021, 22(2), pp.1-9
  • DOI : 10.18095/meeso.2021.22.2.1
  • Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching
  • Received : March 21, 2021
  • Accepted : May 10, 2021
  • Published : May 31, 2021

Kang, Sang-Gu 1

1청주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions around the world to suddenly shift most of their traditional offline classes to the online in 2020. Korean universities were no exception to the trend, and it provided an opportunity to investigate student performance and satisfaction in an online versus offline university English course. In this study, an introductory English linguistics course conducted online in 2020 was compared to the same course conducted offline in 2019. The exams of the online English class probed in this study were the same versions used for the offline class consisting of multiple choice and short answer questions, but were administered in an openbook online format without a proctor. Then, students’ course evaluation results were analyzed to compare their satisfaction in different class delivery formats. Results of online and offline classes revealed that students’ exam results and course evaluation were almost identical, which suggest that the online format of university courses can be as effective as the traditional offline courses for the recent younger generation of online-friendly university students.

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