Appraising Resource Readiness for Internet-Mediated English Language Pedagogy in Nigerian Universities During Covid-19-Necessitated Lockdown
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2023
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University of Botswana
Abstract
This study was carried out to assess the availability and utilisation of human and material
resources for internet-mediated virtual classroom activities by English Language teacher
education departments of selected Nigerian universities during the Covid-19 pandemic. The
centrality of the English language to Nigerian life and the need to assess how well the experience
of that period provided the pre-service teachers with necessary models for the deployment of
resources for virtual classroom teaching prompted the study. A simple survey design was used.
Two public and two private universities were gotten through stratified random sampling. All the
197 English Language teacher education students of the sampled universities constituted the
study sample. However, only sixty-four responded to the 20-item questionnaire that was
administered via the google forms platform. The instrument had earlier yielded 91.7 Cronbach
alpha reliability. The obtained data were analysed using percentages and charts to answer six
research questions. The findings show that lack of prior exposure to online classrooms hindered
the faculty members’ and their students’ coordination. Inadequacy and non-affordability of
Internet services on campuses and in the students’ neighbourhoods hampered the virtual
classrooms. The conclusion, therefore is that the virtual classroom programmes were negatively
impacted by inadequate readiness of both human and technological resources.
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virtual classrooms, teacher education, affordances, digital immigrants, digital natives
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Olatunji, S.O. (2023). Appraising Resource Readiness for Internet-Mediated English Language Pedagogy in Nigerian Universities During Covid-19-Necessitated Lockdown. Lonaka Journal of Learning and Teaching, 12(2),68-84.