Možnost posodobitve poučevanja angleščine: študija o spletnih učiteljih angleščine kot tujega jezika

The master’s thesis explores the north-Croatian teachers’ readiness for teaching online. With technology slowly, but steadily, taking over everyday actions, it was only a matter of time when it would take over education. With March 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, technology was the safest way of conducting lessons and was instantaneously implemented into education. This master’s thesis aims to determine how English teachers in the three northernmost Croatian counties managed the new challenge. Specifically, it tests factors that influenced their e-readiness through 7 hypotheses. The research is based on questionnaire results – the questionnaire was sent to 86 primary schools, 30 secondary schools and 11 private language schools in Međimurje county, Varaždin county and Koprivnica-Križevci county via email with a request to forward it to their English teachers. Analysing responses with quantitative research methods, the study showed that factors such as age, gender and professional development influence teachers’ e-readiness, while there were no differences among the three counties. Furthermore, the results revealed that the teachers generally feel ready for conducting online lessons, although Gay’s questionnaire on Carribean teachers’ online teaching readiness proved otherwise. Interestingly, some of the teachers did have online teaching experience prior to the pandemic, which along with organized professional development offered to them, helped them feel ready to teach online. Ultimately, teachers are better prepared to teach online than they were prior to the pandemichowever, there is still a lot of room for improvement.Magistrsko delo preučuje pripravljenost severnohrvaških učiteljev angleščine na spletno poučevanje. Z marcem 2020 in pojavom pandemije bolezni COVID-19 se je celotno izvajanje pouka naenkrat začelo izvajati po spletu. Sklepamo, da učitelji angleščine pred tem niso imeli ali pa so imeli zelo malo izkušenj s spletnim poučevanjem, vendar so se kljub temu dobro znašli in med izvajanjem pouka na daljavo pridobili dovolj izkušenj. Naloga testira pripravljenost severnohrvaških učiteljev na pouk na spletu na podlagi treh faktorjev: tehnične pripravljenosti (TR), pedagoške pripravljenosti (PR) in pripravljenosti življenjskega stila (LR). Z analizo podatkov vprašalnika smo preverili sedem hipotez