An Alternative Language Pedagogy in Online Classroom Language Learning

Abstract

There is nothing that is devoid of change. Changes in the educational scenario with the upheveal of the pandemic have been quite of a storm. A classroom transaction earlier used to be a closed intimate framework, where it was practically impossible for anyone other than the teacher and the students to be present. That structure has changed in totality with the advent of digital sessions. From a preschool learner to the postgraduates in colleges, all have been transformed into virtual learners. The changeover has been too sudden that the entire school fraternity has been battling hard to arm themselves with the virtual reality devices they were previously alien too. This paper is an attempt to look into the various facets of online language teaching of learners in higher secondary classes. Augmented reality, virtual reality, online tools, videos and google classrooms have taken over the erstwhile classroom mode and it is with apprehension that we look into how the learners have welcomed this abrupt change. If the need of the hour is an alternative language pedagogy, then the language teachers are to fall in place for the change too.