Benefits of Online and Offline Resources for Teaching English and Norwegian as Foreign Languages in a Post-Pandemic Context

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Published: Oct 30, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2024-si-0358
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post-pandemic foreign languages online and offline resources gamification adaptability blended learning

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Diana Lățug
Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adina-Virginia Lung
Gheorghe Șincai National College
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6140-5027

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The study seeks to evaluate how teaching a foreign language (English, Norwegian, or both) has been influenced by the availability of online and offline resources in the post-pandemic context. It also highlights the adaptability of both educators and students alike in using such available resources and emphasizes the process of incorporating gamification in teaching a foreign language. Moreover, it is an attempt to point out to what extent such resources and practices are beneficial to students and helpful for educators. The focus groups are comprised of university students learning Norwegian as a foreign language as well as  pre-university level students of English as a second language.

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Lățug, D., and A.-V. Lung. “Benefits of Online and Offline Resources for Teaching English and Norwegian As Foreign Languages in a Post-Pandemic Context”. Linguaculture, vol. 15, no. Special Issue, Oct. 2024, pp. 64-82, doi:10.47743/lincu-2024-si-0358.
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Author Biographies

Diana Lățug, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Diana LĂȚUG is Junior Lecturer of Norwegian language and literature at the Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, based in Cluj-Napoca. She was awarded her PhD in Philology (2017) for the first thesis focusing primarily on Knut Hamsun’s reception in Romania: „The Reception of Knut Hamsun in the Romanian Cultural Printed Press from 1895 until 2016. National and International Perspective”. In 2009 she completed a bachelor degree in English and Norwegian, at Babeș-Bolyai University. In 2011 she graduated from the British Cultural Studies Master Programme. In 2012 she received the Newly Qualified Teachers’ degree in English and has been a teacher of English for seven years. She has published a series of articles on Knut Hamsun’s life and authorship, but especially on his reception in the Romanian cultural printed press, thus displaying the results of her research in various international conferences and seminars.

Adina-Virginia Lung, Gheorghe Șincai National College

Adina V. LUNG is a graduate of Babeș-Bolyai University, holding a major in English language and literature and a minor in Norwegian language and literature as well as a M.Ed. in school counseling from the same university. She has taught English to native speakers and ESL students in the US and currently teaches English as a foreign language at Gheorghe Șincai National College in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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