- Author:
Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska
- E-mail:
kgorak@sgh.waw.pl
- Institution:
SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-6240
- Author:
Lidia Tomaszewska
- Institution:
SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1485-9305
- Year of publication:
2022
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
165-185
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2022.04.10
- PDF:
kie/138/kie13810.pdf
Remote teaching became one of the key topics in educational research due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our article looks at the other side of the story, i.e., in-person education during the pandemic. This aspect of teaching excellence has been overlooked because it seemed to be thoroughly studied. However, COVID-19 has profoundly changed in-person teaching. In our study, we focus on the Polish medical and technical universities as the studies they offer include solid practical components (labs or clinical classes). Our article examines how in-person classes were administered and organised during three consecutive semesters, starting in the Spring of 2020, when teaching at Polish HEIs was mostly conducted remotely. We build our analysis on internal legal acts issued by rectors and interviews with university staff who oversaw the teaching process. The legal documents describe the procedures related to in-person teaching or frontline teaching in person. The interviews complement this image by providing the rationale behind the regulations, their reception by the students and the faculty, or the backstage of in-person teaching. The LogFrame was applied to provide a conceptual framework to understand how universities could continue providing their services.
- Author:
Marta Kaliska
- E-mail:
m_kaliska@umk.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9113-4562
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
121-136
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/IW.2023.14.2.06
- PDF:
iw/14_2/iw14206.pdf
The Usefulness of the Textbook in the Teaching of Italian in In-Person and Remote Contexts
The present article is aimed at observing the usefulness of the traditional paper textbook for Italian language teaching in two educational contexts: in in-person and remote teaching. Its main research question concerns possible differences and similarities in the use of the textbook in the traditional and virtual classroom. The focus is also put on the specifics of the textbook application, such as the selection of content, types of texts, and activities preferred by teachers. In the first part of the article, the theoretical basis is illustrated and the definition of language textbooks and the specifics of remote teaching during and after the Covid-19 pandemic are highlighted. In the second, analytical part, the data from the survey on the usefulness of the traditional textbook in in-person and remote teaching have been presented. The relevant questionnaire was distributed from March to July 2022 via Google Forms among Italian language teachers working in different European countries, where Italian is taught as a foreign language, and Italy, where Italian is taught as a second language. The survey was aimed at capturing similarities and differences regarding the use of textbooks in these two teaching contexts. The results showed that the textbook still represents an important teaching tool both in person and via the Internet, mostly in the context of teaching Italian as a foreign language—outside the Italian-speaking area.