16 articles in this issue
Salvador Montaner-Villalba, Jesús García-Laborda
Lilia Raitskaya, Elena Tikhonova
With the flood of research on Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, pandemic-induced emergency is giving rise to new unprecedented challenges for all strata of the society, including science and education. The JLE editors focus on the first outcomes and hurdles the ... see more
Reyhan Agçam, Yunus Emre Akbana, Stefan Rathert
Education has been offered in the form of Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) worldwide since March 2020 due to the spread of Covid-19. This compulsory transition has often been marked by disregard of the technological infrastructure of educational institutio... see more
Elena Alcalde Peñalver, Jesús García Laborda
Employing technology has become imperative to accelerate learning efforts and offer methods to enhance interactions between learners, and among learners and tutors. In this paper, we investigate the difficulties faced by learners in learning virtually and... see more
Alicia Chabert
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on education, not only due to its dramatic interruption of the school year (2019-2020) but also its potential effect on many aspects regarding teaching in the future. In particular, focusing on Spain, this y... see more
Rubén Chacón-Beltrán, Raymond Echitchi
This study of demographics is aimed to help LMOOC designers develop courses that are more appealing to prospective learners, and thus fight low completion rate which remains one of the main drawbacks of MOOCs. In addition, as the world battles against the... see more
Michael Joseph Ennis, Massimo Verzella, Silvia Montanari, Agnieszka M. Sendur, Marieta Simeonova Pissarro, Staci Kaiser, Andrew Wimhurst
Telecollaboration, also called virtual exchange or online intercultural exchange, is a form of collaborative learning whereby language learners in different locations engage in computer-mediated communication to complete tasks online. There is ample evide... see more
Alina Monogarova, Tatyana Shiryaeva, Nadezhda Arupova
The spread of disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic is largely associated with social media and online messengers. Viral disinformation disseminated in 2020–2021 was related to a wide range of topics that caused panic among people. Many false narrat... see more
Salvador Montaner-Villalba
Learners studying English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at University regard writing academic papers as a complex process since they have to consider issues about academic writing conventions as well as ethics. This current research examines university stud... see more
Ana Otto, Beatriz López-Medina
This paper reports on the implementation of digital learning logs in the context of pre-service teacher training in a distance university in Madrid. The learning log, which had been previously implemented in the subject as a learning tool, has proven to b... see more
Ana Sevilla-Pavón, Kyria Rebeca Finardi
This article reflects on the experiences of language teachers from Brazil, Spain, France, Cyprus, Costa Rica and Taiwan during the pivot to emergency remote/online instruction during the 2020 pandemic. The research question motivating the study was what l... see more
Olga Stognieva, Victor Popov
This study conducted in an EFL setting investigates students’ perception of the thesis proposal presentation in an online format due to safety concerns during the Covid-19 pandemic. Fifty-five students aged 20-22 years old, level B2-C1 in English, in thei... see more
Mojtaba Teimourtash, Morteza Teimourtash
Education has been regarded as the backbone of human advancement in all areas of activities as the ultimate goal of education is to develop better citizens. Online Education has been known as the alternate approach to learning. The outbreak of Covid-19 vi... see more
Oksana Polyakova, Beatriz Pastor García
This paper presents the findings of a pilot study that explored the relationship between mediation and teaching simulation activities during a postgraduate course for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). A controversial factor of the experimen... see more
Athip Thumvichit, Savika Varaporn, Vorakorn Tuvachit
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, education systems around the globe suspended on-site classes and transitioned instruction to various remote environments, creating a distinctive context for teaching and learning. This systematic review brings togethe... see more
Anastasia Lazareva