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Table 1 Excerpt from participant B’s interview

From: Digital learning and the ESL online classroom in higher education: teachers’ perspectives

 

Q: In what ways do you feel that your students benefitted from the online classroom environment?

 
 

A: You mean in terms of uh English acquisition or more broader or-

 
 

Q: Either or

 

No benefit to SLA

Difficult to CLT

Tech problems

A: I think they probably did not benefit in terms of what they learnt in English. Because there was only so much they could speak to each other in that environment. We had many problems with technology, with the breakdown of technology but there were also some benefits

SLA neg

CLT neg

Tech probs

 

Q: Such as?

 

Accessibility good

Attendance good

A: Uh, so I think that it was very accessible for people. We had more people in a lesson sometimes than I might get in a lecture. So attendance was actually very good and I think that they like attending from home. […]

Access pos

Atten. pos