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Dual-Mode Teaching in the Language Classroom: Reconciling the Pandemic, Equity, and the Future of Quality Language Teaching Pedagogy

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posted on 2022-12-04, 23:28 authored by Vincent Olsen-ReederVincent Olsen-Reeder
The COVID-19 pandemic sent New Zealand universities into crisis, and as a key crisis response measure, classes were mostly moved online. While navigating national public health settings, educators simultaneously had to innovate quickly: to keep our courses in operation, students learning, and quality pedagogy present. The author has been navigating a faculty-wide ‘dual-mode’ teaching policy at their home institution, to teach the Māori language. Dual-mode refers to teaching both in-person and online. Although dual-mode teaching has brought a significant amount of learning flexibility and innovation to the classroom, it also has disadvantages. This article attempts to document some of the positive and negative characteristics noted over two years of dual-mode teaching, from the position of intermediate Māori language classes. It concludes that although this kind of teaching is flexible and equitable, it is not of high quality, and contributes to poor proficiency outcomes for students. Teaching in this way could, however, be of a much higher quality, with support, resourcing and time. As we look to keep these more accessible teaching methods in the future, those additional aspects will be critical in designing classes that are not only equitable, dynamic, and in line with contemporary technological learning styles, but also of a standard that maintains quality language proficiency-building within our learners.

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Olsen-Reeder, V. I. (2022). Dual-Mode Teaching in the Language Classroom: Reconciling the Pandemic, Equity, and the Future of Quality Language Teaching Pedagogy. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 57(2), 335-349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-022-00258-z

Journal title

New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies

Volume

57

Issue

2

Publication date

2022-01-01

Pagination

335-349

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Publication status

Published

Online publication date

2022-08-03

ISSN

0028-8276

eISSN

2199-4714

Language

en

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