O ensino de inglês em tempos da COVID-19 : percepções de docentes e discentes do CODAP/UFS

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools around the world, from kindergarten to higher education, to suspend classroom classes and adopt the ERL modality, which is different from distance education, to continue the education of millions of people. At CODAP/UFS it was no different. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to analyze the perception of students and teachers of elementary school II in this school about the difficulties and benefits provided by this modality in the English course. For this purpose, a qualitative and quantitative descriptive field study was carried out, which collected data through online questionnaires, for a sample of 42 students and 2 professors. The results show several difficulties and some benefits perceived by the respondents. It is concluded that, among the various perceptions, the nostalgia for in-person classes is the greatest difficulty experienced by students during the ERL, which imposed an overload of work on teachers, considerably increasing physical and mental fatigue, making none of the respondents want to continue with 100% remote classes, despite everything, the fact that almost half of them prefer the hybrid modality demonstrates that the ERL brought benefits they perceived and that they can be used/appropriated in the education system when the social distance ends.