Abstract:

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the closing of educational institutions, and teachers and students have had to switch to online learning. How to ensure that education is not affected during the epidemic is a great challenge in preventing and controlling the epidemic. To ensure that hundreds of millions of students "stop study," China has started a comprehensive and large-scale online teaching. Unlike other subjects, foreign language teaching aims to train students' verbal communication skills and emphasize language environment teaching. How to learn a foreign language through an online classroom without face-to-face communication? It represents an unprecedented challenge for both educators and students.

Due to the spread of Covid-19, digital education stood out for its favorableness. In the digital age, online foreign language teaching platforms in China are constantly improving. All online learning forms are continually pouring in, making numerous outstanding educational resources available for ordinary people. One must recognize that digital learning changes how information is shared and gradually changes the way of spread knowledge. The digital age has built a new learning model that has brought many changes in teaching methods and how learners receive an education.

In addition to changes in the teaching regime, the teacher's traditional role is changing, which suggests his/her new assignments. After Chinese teachers, after continuous search research, conducted "online training" and "online reskilling" in an orderly manner, combined with local factual circumstances, are gradually looking for a high-quality online learning model suitable for students. Based on the actual local situation, the article's authors explored a high-quality online learning model ideal for students, accumulated online learning experience, and conducted research and practice to take advantage of online learning after the coronavirus.

Therefore, what are the characteristics of "online foreign language teaching" in China during the Covid-19 pandemic? What kind of difficulties are foreign language teachers and students face in online learning? What are the advantages and disadvantages of "online learning" in foreign language classes compared to "traditional"? Based on the above questions, the article:
analyses the online classroom of Chinese foreign language teaching;
highlights the digital learning resources types used in the educational process;
describes the psychological change of teachers and students in the process of transition from an offline class to online learning, and the impact of this change on foreign language learning;
proposes the method of foreign language teacher professional transformation in training.

Through these resources and elaboration, the authors try to explore and present a better model of learning foreign languages in the online- classroom and contribute to the development of online education in China.

Keywords:

COVID-19, China, FLT (foreign language teaching), online teaching, digital learning resources, teacher professional transformation.