The interdisciplinary master's thesis explores the difference between the development of productive language skills during distance and in-person learning. The theoretical part of the master's thesis describes the process of developing the productive language skills before the pandemic and the approaches that had to be introduced during the lockdown mode. The empirical part presents the hypotheses, the results of a questionnaire about foreign language students’ experience during distance learning, and the methods chosen for the analysis of the questionnaire. The evaluation of the hypotheses is presented at the end.
Supported by the research results, the present master’s thesis emphasizes the concerns as well as benefits that students experienced during online teaching and draws relevant conclusions pertaining to future development of (online) teaching practices.
The analysis shows that there was a considerable decrease in the frequency of speaking activities in the distance learning process. The same techniques were still used, but less frequently. In contrast, when analysing the development of the writing skill, we can see that there is no difference in the process before and during the lockdown.
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