Online EFL classroom interaction and student engagement during Covid-19 emergency with 2nd grade students.

Description: The issue in this research acknowledges the online English as a foreign language classroom interaction and how student engagement was evidenced during COVID-19 emergency during the 2020 – 2021 school year with 2nd grade students from three different schools with different socioeconomic status in the city of Guayaquil. To address this circumstance a descriptive study with a mixed methods approach was designed. To gather data, four observation sheets with qualitative observation notes were applied to teachers and students, and a survey just to the teachers. After the analysis of the research tools findings, it was found that the virtual classrooms have different environments depending on the socioeconomic status, however the students, were most of the time, engaged and motivated because of the work of the teachers. The digital resources teachers used during the online sessions played an important role within the students’ motivation and engagement. It was also found that parents from lower middle socioeconomic status schools were present in the class, sometimes interfering with lessons.

Topic: CLASSROOM INTERACTION
ENGAGEMENT
PANDEMIC
VIRTUAL CLASSES
SECOND LANGUAGE