Language Education During the Pandemic

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rushing Online by Wissia Fiorucci.- Section 1 English as a Foreign Language: Italian Case Studies.- Chapter 2: Authentic and Continuous Assessment During the Pandemic: Teachers' and Students' Perspectives by Antonella Giacosa.- Chapter 3: Computer-Based Self-assessment as a Customised Tool for the Strategic Implementation of an Updated Circular Teaching Model by Roxanne Barbara Doerr and Annalisa Zanola.- Section 2 Practices in the Virtual Classroom.- Chapter 4:  Revisiting the Language Lab in the Age of Online Learning: Videoconferencing, Teacher Feedback, and Learner Self-Correction by Tobias Heinrich.- Chapter 5:  Teaching Translation into Spanish Asynchronously: Assessment and Engagement in the Times of COVID  by Nazaret Pérez-Nieto.- Chapter 6: Loops, Sayings, and Tongue-Twisters: How to Enhance Foreign Language  Communicative Skills in Online Learning Environments  by Livia Manzini.- Section 3 Intercultural Competence and Community in Online Settings.- Chapter 7: Developing an Online Community and Intercultural Competence: Travelling Virtually to China by Wissia Fiorucci, Ru Su, Alvise Sforza Tarabochia.- Chapter 8: Developing a Sense of Community Online Through Intercultural Communication: A Gamified Approach by Patricia Díaz-Muñoz and Laura Stecca.- Section Four: Conclusions.- Chapter 9: The Future of Assessment in Language Education: What Have We Learnt from the Pandemic? by Marion Coderch.

Wissia Fiorucci is the Director of the Language Centre at the University of Kent, UK as well as the Director of Education and UG Students' Experience for the Division of Arts and Humanities. She's one of the two co-organisers of the Modern Languages Teaching Forum. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.