TEACHER PRESENCE AS MEDIATOR IN ONLINE LEARNING: THE CASE FOR FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Authors

  • Nor Azhar Mohd Taib Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
  • Noor Hanim Rahmat Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Johor, Campus Pasir Gudang, Malaysia
  • Saidah Ismail Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
  • Omrah Hassan @ Hussin Jabatan Bahasa Asing, Fakulti Bahasa Moden, dan Komunikasi, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v5i5.3934

Keywords:

foreign language, flexibility, online learning, presence, mediator

Abstract

Fortunately, technology and long entered the education sectors when the world is faced with the pandemic. Whether teachers and learners are ready or not, online classes are here to stay. Online learning is a unique way of learning that allow flexibility at many levels. Language educators once felt that the learning of language can only be done face-to-face because of the needs of some language skills. This study is done to explore the portrayal of presence during online learning of the French as a foreign language. This quantitative study is done to investigate how learners cope learning French online. 170 respondents were purposely chosen from learners who took French as a foreign language. They attended the course in a few public and private universities. The instrument used is a questionnaire. Findings revealed interesting influence of the teacher as mediator in online learning.

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Author Biographies

  • Nor Azhar Mohd Taib, Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
    Nor Azhar has been teaching French for 13 years. His interests are Teaching French with technology and all related topics on methodologies of teaching French.
  • Noor Hanim Rahmat, Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Johor, Campus Pasir Gudang, Malaysia
    Noor Hanim Rahmat has taught in the university for over 26 years. Her research interests are TESL, Educational Psychology, Academic Writing and Academic Reading.
  • Saidah Ismail, Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
    Saidah Ismail has been teaching French for more than 10 years. Her areas of interest are in linguistics, sociolinguistics and teaching French as foreign language.
  • Omrah Hassan @ Hussin, Jabatan Bahasa Asing, Fakulti Bahasa Moden, dan Komunikasi, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
    Omrah Hassan @ Hussin has taught in the university for over 20 years. His areas of interest are in Comparative Linguistics, translation and teaching French as foreign language.

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2021-09-15

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Vol. 5 No. 5 (2021)

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