Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences
This study aimed to examine what challenges Iranian EFL teachers in the mainstream edu-cational system experienced in distance classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telephone unstructured narrative interview was employed to collect data from 20 teacher participants, and two theoretical frameworks,...
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2025-01-01
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This study aimed to examine what challenges Iranian EFL teachers in the mainstream edu-cational system experienced in distance classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telephone unstructured narrative interview was employed to collect data from 20 teacher participants, and two theoretical frameworks, CoI and TPACK, were used to interpret the results. The thematic narrative analysis yielded ten themes: non-customized platforms, material-related issues, connection/internet issues, pedagogical problems, evaluation problems, insufficien-cy of teachers’ knowledge of technology, unmet expectations, physical absence of teach-er/student, student-related issues, and dealing with negative emotions. The authors dis-cuss that while some challenges are the antecedent contextual challenges that existed and will probably continue to exist in the context of distance classes, some other challenges can be avoided if teachers are equipped with TPACK to fulfill their new roles in the community of distance classes.
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| spelling | doaj-art-ac4a85ab2e944b57871900c6ccd207ed2025-08-20T03:13:18ZengUniversity of Tuzla, Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)2303-48582025-01-01102Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiencesMehrnoosh Fakharzadeh0Mohammad Hassan Naderi1Sheikhbahaee University, Isfahan, IranSheikhbahaee University, Isfahan, Iran This study aimed to examine what challenges Iranian EFL teachers in the mainstream edu-cational system experienced in distance classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telephone unstructured narrative interview was employed to collect data from 20 teacher participants, and two theoretical frameworks, CoI and TPACK, were used to interpret the results. The thematic narrative analysis yielded ten themes: non-customized platforms, material-related issues, connection/internet issues, pedagogical problems, evaluation problems, insufficien-cy of teachers’ knowledge of technology, unmet expectations, physical absence of teach-er/student, student-related issues, and dealing with negative emotions. The authors dis-cuss that while some challenges are the antecedent contextual challenges that existed and will probably continue to exist in the context of distance classes, some other challenges can be avoided if teachers are equipped with TPACK to fulfill their new roles in the community of distance classes. http://exell.untz.ba/index.php/exell/article/view/95EFL teacherdistance English teachingnarrative analysischallenges |
| spellingShingle | Mehrnoosh Fakharzadeh Mohammad Hassan Naderi Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics) EFL teacher distance English teaching narrative analysis challenges |
| title | Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences |
| title_full | Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences |
| title_fullStr | Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences |
| title_short | Challenges of distance English teaching: Narrative analysis of Iranian mainstream EFL teachers’ lived experiences |
| title_sort | challenges of distance english teaching narrative analysis of iranian mainstream efl teachers lived experiences |
| topic | EFL teacher distance English teaching narrative analysis challenges |
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