Poučevanje angleščine na daljavo v 4. in 5. razredu OŠ v obdobju prvega vala epidemije COVID-19 v Sloveniji : magistrsko delo

Bešić, Alma (author), Dagarin Fojkar, Mateja (mentor)

Zaradi razglašene epidemije covida-19 v Sloveniji so bile šole spomladi 2020 primorane nenadno spremeniti svoj način dela in vsem učencem zagotoviti pouk v obliki spletnega izobraževanja na daljavo, kar je s seboj prineslo vrsto težav in izzivov. Na to ni bil pripravljen nihče, ne pedagoška stroka ne politika, in tako na začetku ni bilo enotnega načrta glede tega, kako pouk na daljavo izpeljati. Vsaka šola in tudi vsak posamezen učitelj se je problema lotil sam in na svoj način. Med šolami so se kazale razlike v opremi, ki so jo učitelji imeli na voljo, v sposobnosti rokovanja z računalniki in v poznavanju programov za nadaljevanje dela. V empiričnem delu smo raziskovali, kako so učitelji četrtega in petega razreda osnovne šole v obdobju prvega vala epidemije izvajali pouk angleščine kot tujega jezika. S polstrukturiranim intervjujem smo pridobili podatke o izkušnjah dvanajstih učiteljev, ki so v tem obdobju v dvanajstih različnih šolah po Sloveniji poučevali angleščino v četrtem in petem razredu. Povprašali smo jih o prehodu na delo na daljavo, o načrtovanju in izvedbi pouka tujega jezika v izrednih okoliščinah in o izzivih, s katerimi so se v tem obdobju spopadali. Ugotovili smo, da je bila sprememba dela zaradi svoje nenadnosti stresna za vse vpletene. V kratkem času je bilo treba vzpostaviti virtualno delovno okolje in za vse omogočiti dostop do njega. Učitelji po večini niso imeli časa za vnaprejšnje pripravljanje na nov način dela in so bili primorani učiti po sistemu poskusov in napak. Z namenom, da bi čim prej našli primeren sistem poučevanja, ki njim in njihovim učencem ustreza, so se udeleževali izobraževanj, se med seboj posvetovali, si delili napotke, ideje in primere dobrih praks. Naše magistrsko delo bo pripomoglo k razumevanju poučevanja angleščine v obdobju epidemije covida-19 in bo v primeru želje ali potrebe po vzpostavitvi poučevanja angleščine na daljavo nudilo pomoč pri ponovni vzpostavitvi le-tega.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: četrti in peti razred osnovne šole, epidemija covida-19, poučevanje angleščine, poučevanje na daljavo
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: A. Bešić
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 100 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-154031
• UDC: 811.111(043.2)
• DOI: 20.500.12556/RUL-154031
• COBISS.SI-ID: 181838595
• Publication date in RUL: 20.01.2024

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: English Distance Teaching in 4th and 5th Grades of Elementary School during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Slovenia

Abstract

With the COVID-19 epidemic announced, in spring 2020, schools in Slovenia had to suddenly change their work method and provide all pupils with classes in form of online distance education, which brought about several problems and challenges. Nobody was prepared for such an event, neither education professionals nor politicians, so in the beginning a uniform plan on how to provide distance learning was lacking. Each school and each teacher tried to overcome this challenge by themselves and in their own way. Differences in the equipment available to teachers between schools started to show, along with differences in their abilities to use computers and their software skills required to continue their work. In the empirical part, we studied how teachers of the fourth and fifth grades of primary school conducted classes of English as a foreign language during the first wave of the epidemic. By carrying out semi-structured interviews, we obtained data on the experience of twelve teachers who taught English in the fourth and fifth grades in this period in twelve different schools across Slovenia. We asked them about the transition to distance teaching, the planning and implementation of foreign language classes in extraordinary circumstances and the challenges they had to face in this period. We determined that the change in the work method was stressful for everyone involved because of its sudden nature. A virtual working environment and access to it had to be introduced in a very short period of time. Teachers mostly lacked the time to prepare in advance for the new work method and were forced to teach following the system of trial and error. In order to find an appropriate teaching system suitable to them and their pupils as soon as possible, they attended education courses, asked each other for advice and shared guidelines, ideas and best practise examples. Our master’s thesis will contribute to the understanding of English-teaching during the COVID-19 epidemic and offer assistance for the re-implementation of a remote English-teaching system in case such a desire or need arise.

• Keywords: fourth and fifth grades of elementary school, COVID-19 epidemic, English-teaching, distance teaching