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Description
According to Khalil and Kholofelo Semono-Eke (2020), teaching methodology significantly impacts students’ learning process, so EFL teachers should flexibly adjust their teaching styles to enhance their performance. To examine lecturers’ adjustment of applying instructional strategies between the face-to-face and online teaching environment, this study investigated how often EFL university lecturers in the Mekong Delta employ different instructional strategies in face-to-face and online teaching. Twenty-eight EFL lecturers participated in a questionnaire with 25 instructional strategies derived from different English language teaching methods. The findings showed that lecturers tend to apply both traditional and communicative strategies in their teaching practice. Most of the suggested strategies are employed more often in face-to-face teaching rather than online teaching, except that Question-and-answer, Problem-solving, and Independent learning are utilized more frequently in online teaching. At the same time, Think-pair-share and Solve-pair-share have the same level of use in the two environments. The findings also indicated that the project is the least often used strategy, while the most often used strategy is Question-and-answer.
Biography
Dang Anh Phuong has been teaching English since 2002. He had 7 years teaching at a rural Vietnamese high school and 10 years at a language center. He is now a lecturer in English at the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City – Campus in Ben Tre, Vietnam. He holds an MA in Applied Linguistics. His research interest includes English teaching methods and techniques, Blended learning, and teacher professional development. Phuong is currently a PhD student at Can Tho University and has presented some of his studies at International Tesol Conferences.
