PhD Students' Attitudes towards the role of oline teaching in Reinforcing EAP During the COVID-19 pandemic Case Study : Post graduate Students of Sociology and Psychology

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic forced several universities to shift from face-to-face education to online learning in order to halt the disease's spread. In this sense, remote learning was the only option for ensuring educational continuity in Algeria. EAP courses were required for Algerian postgraduate students in the Department of Sociology and psychology since they study in French and English is a foreign language to them. This present study aims to investigate post-graduate students’ attitudes toward the role of online learning in reinforcing EAP during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the use of zoom platform. It also aims to improve the teaching and learning process of academic English language. On this basis, we hypothesised that Post-graduate students prefer learning EAP remotely rather than face-toface learning. In order to test our hypothesis, and respond to the research questions, the...