ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING ONLINE: A STUDY AT THE HIGHER SECONDARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION IN BANGLADESH

COVID-19 pandemic compelled the language teachers as well as the students of Bangladesh to be acquainted with the virtual world of teaching and learning. As a result, English language teachers started teaching English online. The present mixed-method study tried to find out the perception and preparation of the higher secondary level English language teachers for English language teaching online and depict the prevailing situation of this new trend of teaching. The study also explored the effectiveness of language teaching online as well as the challenges that the teachers were facing while conducting language classes online. The study conducted questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers teaching English language online at the higher secondary level of educational institutions in Dhaka city and data was collected between the period of May, 2020 to August,2020. The study found that the teachers were trying to overcome the challenges in language teaching online and to make their teaching effective. Moreover, to date, no guidelines for the higher secondary level English teachers from the government or from any other educational authorities on how to do online video interactive teaching had been given. So the teachers were autonomous learner on online teaching.