DEVELOPING TOURISM UNDERGRADUATES’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A PURELY ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
Zuzana Sándorová, Norbert Beták, Silvia Presinszká
Pages: 183-195
Published: 1 Oct 2022
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Abstract: Even though moving the teaching-learning process to the online environment during the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the long-awaited educational revolution, it certainly has both benefits and drawbacks. The present study aims to shed light on tourism undergraduates' views on the advantages and disadvantages of different e-learning systems used at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia, during two semesters in the academic year 2021/22, in terms of their English language skill development. The data were collected through online questionnaires and analysed using the method of thematic analysis, while the research sample involved 101 tourism undergraduates majoring in the Regional Tourism BA study programme. The findings revealed that students were more satisfied with the intensity of skill development in the summer semester using MS Teams, concerning all the investigated skills, but mainly in the case of speaking and listening skills.
Keywords: english for specific purposes, tourism undergraduates, intercultural communicative competences, online learning, advantages, disadvantages
Cite this article: Zuzana Sándorová, Norbert Beták, Silvia Presinszká. DEVELOPING TOURISM UNDERGRADUATES’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A PURELY ONLINE ENVIRONMENT. Journal of International Scientific Publications: Educational Alternatives 20, 183-195 (2022). https://www.scientific-publications.net/en/article/1002385/
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