OVERCOMING COMMOTION IN SIMULATED LEARNING: AN ANALYSIS

Abstract

Education plays a vital role in moulding an individual towards desirable changes in behaviour. Higher education is for holistic life and not for mere living and such learning environments are more opted and classrooms play a vital role in it. Nevertheless, the epidemic COVID-19 brought a drastic change in the typical classroom teaching and learning throughout the world which questioned the status of offline teaching. To flatten the curve, a cessation occurred in traditional educational system, which resulted in complete lockdown, switching over to online mode, with insistence on social distancing. This emphasis on implementation of e-learning in education brought a shift in the perspectives on language teaching and learning. Gradually, in 2021, offline mode of teaching and learning began again and at present a hybrid teaching methodology is chosen by many institutions and teaching professionals. This paper attempts to assess the novelty implemented by the researcher while teaching English language in a higher educational institution and analyses the difference in perspectives in ‘Pre, During and Post’ COVID 19 period.

Key words: Higher education for holistic life, emergence of pandemic, disruption in the typical classroom, pre-during-post pandemic scenario, hybrid approach in teaching/learning.