ENGLISH TEACHERS’ READINESS FOR EMERGENCY ONLINE TEACHING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN VIETNAM

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has been widely spread to most countries in the world and its sudden appearance has seriously impacted the global education. The paper presents findings of a case study which investigated how English teachers responded to the new teaching context in the centre of Vietnam. How ready they were to deal with the abrupt switch from normal teaching to online teaching was presented in the article. The research employed the mixed method with a survey and in-depth interviews as the main instruments. Teachers of English from primary schools to high schools in the centre of Vietnam were invited for the survey. As revealed from the survey, these teachers of English were not well-prepared for sudden online teaching and the level of readiness varied according to the school levels. It is, therefore, recommended that teachers of English should update themselves with strategies used in online teaching, IT skills through training and self-study.