Abstract:

The lockdowns imposed globally to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have forced educational administrations to adjust their face-to-face mode of delivery to online overnight. Skepticism and emerging challenges were swiftly dealt with, and collective efforts towards sustaining online environments have been crowned with success. Most university students and teachers around the world today, log in to their classes from home. Students studying English at a private university in Spring semester 2020 started their classes in face-to-face mode and changed to online after completing the first six weeks on campus, while the students studying in Fall 2020, started online and completed the Fall semester online. Both sets of students were asked to complete the same questionnaire regarding the online delivery of their courses. While it was apparent in both cases that students are looking forward to returning to the campus, results indicate that attitudes towards the online mode have improved amongst students who did not have the chance to study face-to-face at all. Both groups comprised first year students studying English for Academic Purposes at a private university in Nicosia, Cyprus. Findings may inform teaching and learning pedagogies as well as decisions taken by education administrators.

Keywords:

Online delivery, covid19, english.