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Drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological system and van Lier's affordance, this study explored livestream English teaching anxiety experienced by high school teachers through interviews with 12 high school EFL teachers from China. Six types of anxiety were identified at the macro, exo, and micro levels, namely, anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic, limited technological support from school authorities, students' parents, inadequate technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK), and insufficient effective teacher-student interactions. Implications for alleviating teachers' online anxiety were proposed to enhance the teachers' livestreaming confidence and the teaching quality in the post pandemic era. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Objective: To investigate mental health and its associated factors in college students during COVID-19 confinement in campus, and to provide a scientific basis for mental health education.
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Despite the growth of studies on technology-enhanced language education, language teachers' experiences and stages of transiting to teach online during crisis have received little attention. Informed by the boundary-crossing learning theory as a theoretical framework, this case study aimed to examine three experienced Chinese junior secondary school English teachers' transition to teaching online as a result of the school closure during the outbreak of COVID-19. In the study, we collected a variety of data from the participants including their narratives through stimulated recalls about teaching online, teaching artifacts (e.g., worksheets, lesson plans) about their instructional features, and semi-structured interviews about the transitional process. Reflexive thematic analysis was followed to construct understandings about the participants' online teaching experiences and influencing factors. The results show that the participants experienced three stages of online shift, involving preparing, adapting and stabilizing stages facilitated by four dialogical learning mechanisms, i.e., identification, coordination, reflection and transformation. Their dispositional traits and proactive efforts, and systemic support contributed to their process of overcoming pedagogical, technical and emotional challenges during the boundary-crossing process. Implications are drawn on strategies that facilitate language teachers’ emergency online teaching, and professional development for better online delivery.
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Drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological system and van Lier's affordance, this study explored livestream English teaching anxiety experienced by high school teachers through interviews with 12 high school EFL teachers from China. Six types of anxiety were identified at the macro, exo, and micro levels, namely, anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic, limited technological support from school authorities, students' parents, inadequate technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK), and insufficient effective teacher–student interactions. Implications for alleviating teachers' online anxiety were proposed to enhance the teachers' livestreaming confidence and the teaching quality in the post pandemic era.