Digital mother tongue education during the pandemic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2021.4.1Keywords:
digital mother tongue education, Hungarian lesson, ICT tools, teachers of Hungarian, mother tongue lessonAbstract
The COVID-19 caused fundamental changes in several areas of life, including education. This has been examined by several experts from different aspects. However, mother tongue education, and especially teaching grammar, has not been discussed from this perspective so far. The study intends to fill this gap by presenting the results of a study involving 234 teachers of Hungarian grammar, thus providing a closer look into the structure of the digital curriculum. The questionnaire survey conducted in the second half of 2020 focused on the effectiveness and tools of online mother tongue education and the teachers’ experiences in general, among others. The study was based on the premise that although teachers had only little time to prepare for online education, they were able to cope with the task. Obviously, the process didn’t go entirely smoothly, and the too fast transition had its cost and limitations both in tools and methodological issues.