ASYNCHRONOUS FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING: RESENTATION OF A UNIVERSITY MODEL
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With the pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the educational system in Serbia in a short period of time had to transition to online teaching. This paper presents a model of Remote Foreign Language Learning at the university level, that is, Teaching Spanish as an optional language (level A1) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad (FFUNS) in an asynchronous online form during the academic years of 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 by using the platform Moodle. Different types of activities employed for the purpose of practicing all language skills have been tested on the mentioned platform. The aim of this paper is to show the success of the asynchronous form used in Foreign Language Learning as well as its limitations, and to show the possibilities that the platform Moodle can offer for these purposes. The paper also includes the results of a survey conducted at the end of both academic years with the intention of considering students’ attitudes about completing the Foreign Language Learning course in the aforementioned manner.
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