Challenges of Online Teaching in the Business Language Class

Abstract

With escalating SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, the fight against the disease has become an absolute priority and social distancing measures have been adopted both at the level of the community and at the level of higher education in Romania. The present article emphasizes the advantages and disadvantages of online language teaching for economics students while taking into consideration various aspects such as the flexibility of the program, saving information on the platform for the benefit of the teacher's focus on teaching materials, planning courses, and communicating with students, adopting a new assessment system, improving time management, use of internet resources but also drawing attention to the fluctuating internet connection, the crash of the devices or of the platform, potentially disturbing factors, students' passivity, the lack of motivation and real connection, the lack of a sense of belonging to a group or an institution, etc. The present paper brings forth several solutions while advocating the integration of the online experience within the traditional teaching system.