Teachers’ Perception on Giving Feedback to Students’ Online Writing Assignment During Movement Control Order (MCO)

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210312.076How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Covid-19 pandemic, giving feedback, digital learning, lifelong learning, MCO

Abstract

As the nation is moving towards highly intellectual civilization, teaching and learning (T&L) process has shifted towards applying more modern and high technology appliances. The spread of Covid-19 pandemic has fuelled the transformation of the teaching and learning process. Face-to-face classes have been shifted to online classes during the recent academic semester due to the implementation of Movement Control Order (MCO). This online learning and teaching process have brought new challenges to not only the students but also to the teachers themselves. This study investigates teachers’ perceptions towards giving feedback to online writing assignments, teaching writing online as well as teachers’ view on the difficulties and opportunities faced while teaching writing skills online. An online survey form containing 11 open-ended questions was answered by 5 language instructors from English Language Learning Centre, UMT. It was found that the writing classes were conducted synchronous and asynchronous on various online platforms such as Google Classroom, and Padlet. Teachers also gave feedback to students’ online writing assignments using various mediums such as WhatsApp, and Telegram. The variety of online platforms and mediums used were due to the constraints of online learning like poor internet connection, and lack of technology devices; to name a few. In contrast, online learning provided room for teachers to display information faster to the students apart from saving time. The results of this study have implications for future online writing skills class in ensuring the teachers to master online teaching for the students to get optimum benefits even when learning is done online. This will later contribute to the building of civilization with high intellectual and moral values.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hafizah Ab Hamid
AU  - Raihana Romly
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/13
TI  - Teachers’ Perception on Giving Feedback to Students’ Online Writing Assignment During Movement Control Order (MCO)
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Industrial Revolution (ICSTEIR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 461
EP  - 464
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210312.076
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210312.076
ID  - Hamid2021
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