Techniques for Promoting Teacher - Student Interaction in Online Learning

With the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, education in Vietnam has been in transition from face-to-face to online settings. This abrupt shift has posed challenges to teachers in terms of creating and teaching interactive online lessons to promote learner engagement and participation. Motivated by online teaching techniques, the current research aims to examine the degree to which my high school students were engaged in their online learning process before and after the interaction techniques (i.e. synchronous discussion and gamification) were employed, and their attitudes towards Web-based learning. Pre- and post-test questionnaires were piloted to determine the extent of learner interaction before and after the intervention. Semi-structured interview was conducted to collect the data of learners’ attitudes towards online lessons. The results showed that synchronous discussion and gamification enhanced teacher-student interaction, and students had a positive perception of online learning. From the findings, practical implications will be provided for the implementation of foreign language instruction in the Web-based context.