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Dual-Mode Teaching: Challenges and Opportunities for ELT Teachers #1011

In 2020, COVID-19 pushed tertiary education in Macao to change dramatically, first from face-to-face teaching to complete online teaching, and in the second half of the year, to face-to-face cum online teaching. This has posed challenges to all educators, and this sudden and immediate change has especially impacted the ELT classroom. Through in-depth interviews with 6 EFL/ESL teachers at a tertiary institution in Macao, this study looks from the teachers’ perspective at the difficulties and challenges they faced in adapting to the changes, the solutions they found to cope with the unprecedented demand, as well as their suggestions for the future ELT classrooms. The impact of COVID-19 will hopefully subside soon, yet the revolution in the way to teach English as a second/foreign language at the tertiary level has just begun.