MAINTAINING QUALITY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING & TESTING ACROSS THE GLOBE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

This desk research aims at investigating how ESL/EFL teachers across the world maintain their quality of teaching and testing. This study will compare the strategies used by teachers in various countries to maintain the quality of teaching and testing English as second and foreign language. Not only the differences and similarities of the methods used by the teachers in the virtual classroom, but also the testing strategies used in online mode. This study shows that various online media were used to deliver teaching and testing. In addition, collaboration within stakeholders is necessary to create innovation that reached wider communities and areas. The strategies are mostly similar across countries because they used online media and program. However, the characteristics of educational system within countries should be considered in determining the strategies used to maintain English language teaching and testing.

Keywords: Language Teaching, Language Testing Maintain quality, Online Learning, Covid-19 Pandemic