POST-COVID PEDAGOGY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

‘Pedagogy,’ an emerging concept of 21st century has got its root in Greek Dictionary. Comprising of two Greek words ‘Paidos’ and ‘Agogos’ connoting ‘Boy, child’ and ‘Guide’ and ultimately directly indicates a teacher or teaching related issue. Until the impact of Covid-19 (A highly infectious disease prevailing in the world with mild to moderate respiratory illness caused due to newly discovered Corona virus) on Education system teachers were comfortable with traditional ‘Chalk and Talk’ method but the sudden circumstances arrived due to the pandemic Covid19, the habitual face to face mode of transaction transforms into a world of virtual digital world where Technological skill enhancement for the teachers gains utmost priority. Here this study was done with sixty language teachers of ten schools (six teachers from each) of rural and urban regions of Kolkata to assess their awareness of Techno-pedagogical skills. A self – made standardized questionnaire was distributed to them for data collection and it revealed that though we are in the age of digitalization the language teachers of today still lag in technical application in the field of education. The trained teachers’ awareness of Techno-pedagogical skill was higher than the untrained ones. There was no difference in the area of awareness of Techno-pedagogical skill between the male and female language teachers. Urban language teachers showed greater level of alertness in techno-pedagogical skill than the Rural Language teachers.Keywords: e-teaching learning, e-gadgets, epidemic, COVID-19, ICT, Learning- design