During the spring of 2020, institutions of higher education (IHEs) closed their buildings but continued to offer instruction through emergency remote teaching procedures in the United States of America. Although students and teaching faculty received much attention for their mutual under preparedness for remote learning using online tools,…

During the COVID-19 pandemic period, a growing number of learning activities are taking place in online contexts. Along with the adversity in the online course of target language learning, student engagement has been considered important to improve learners' academic achievements of the target language. Although there has been a growing interest…

This phenomenological analysis focused on the perceptions of online literacy-based instruction in low-SES schools during COVID-19 school closures from March 2020-April 2021. The perceptions of administrators, teachers, and students were represented in this study, and the analysis captured the experiences of administrators who helped plan and…

While previous studies in the literature may have used the concept of a community of practice (CoP) to investigate its role for teachers' professional development, this study identifies the role of a teachers' CoP in navigating the challenges in online/ remote teaching faced by six teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in a university in…