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Experiences of students of health study programs in Croatia with the forms and content of foreign language study during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a new communication framework which introduced numerous challenges. Tertiary education has experienced dramatic changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, including foreign language study at universities, which have employed online, in-person, and hybrid models of teaching. Each teacher was set the goal of conveying content using digital resources and new or updated platforms. Teaching skills, good lesson organization, and the teacher’s personality were no longer the sole foci – the teacher was suddenly expected to be versatile in several areas in order to fulfil their role of a foreign language teacher professionally under difficult and unfamiliar conditions imposed by the pandemic. The goal of this paper is to analyse the experiences of students of health study programmes and related programmes with the forms and content of foreign language study during the COVID-19 pandemic. To what extent were students (dis)satisfied with foreign language study? To what extent did teachers adapt to the new situation and how successful were they in conveying the content of their courses? Answers to such questions were received from students of health study programmes and related programmes in Croatia using an anonymous questionnaire.

foreign languages ; pandemic ; teaching

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