THE ENGAGEMENT OF CHILDREN IN ONLINE CLASSES

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Keywords:

Participation, Remote teaching, COVID-19, Motivation, Teaching to children.

Abstract

This paper brings an experience report about the English remote teaching to children due to the pandemic COVID-19, which affected Brazil at the beginning of March of 2020. The objective is to identify the ways we, teachers, can make students feel more motivated to participate and engage in class. In this experience different online tools were used to try to create better engagement, and at the end of the report, after some observations and the teaching practice, we have the conclusion of the better tools for prompting children participation.

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Author Biographies

Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR.

Doutora em Estudos da Linguagem, docente no Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil.

Maria Luiza Caetano Soares, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR.

Graduada em Letras Inglês pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil.

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Published

2021-08-30

How to Cite

Tonelli, J. R. A., & Soares, M. L. C. (2021). THE ENGAGEMENT OF CHILDREN IN ONLINE CLASSES. ReTER, 2(2), e17/01–12. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufsm.br/reter/article/view/65311

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