Delivering ESL Lessons Online to Engineering and Technology Students during Covid19 Pandemic: Opportunities and Challenges

Authors

Dr. C. Suganthan, Assistant Professor
Department of English, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore – 632014, India.
Department of Smart Computing, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore – 632014, India.
Dr. A. Minnal Carolin, Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, SRM Institute of Hotel Management, Kattangulathur, Chengalpattu-603203, India.
Dr. Sivakumar Nagarajan, Associate Professor
Department of Information Security, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore – 632014, India.
Prof. Ramesh P S, Assistant Professor
Department of Smart Computing, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore – 632014, India.

Abstract

Education around the world is facing a setback due to the onset of the pandemic from the year 2019. The field of education and the academicians around the world working hard to provide uninterrupted education to their wards and the only option left with them is the online mode of education. Shifting their mode of delivery from face-to-face conventional classroom education to an entirely new system requires a lot of effort. This study intends to understand the challenges and opportunities before the teaching community to deliver quality education to their students through online mode.