O desafio do desenvolvimento de competências linguísticas de PLE por alunos chineses nas aulas on-line durante a pandemia

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought almost the entire education sector online globally, with China being one of the first countries to be affected. However, due to the characteristics of online education, the development of learners' competences may encounter challenges. In the case of foreign language teaching, the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the target language may be affected to different degrees due to their inherent natures. Consequently, the development of these competences may become unbalanced. The present work aims to investigate, among the four language skills, which ones were more (and less) affected by the emergence of online classes during the pandemic from the perspective of Portuguese as foreign language (PFL) learners; and to try to analyze the reasons for such phenomenon. Adopting the mixed methods, 66 learners of PFL at a university in Macao answered a questionnaire, which constitutes quantitative data, while qualitative data come from a semi-structured interview. The results demonstrate the students' distraction in online classes as well as the indispensable role of face-to-face teaching; and suggest that listening comprehension and oral production skills were relatively less developed because of the lack of synchronous interaction during online classes.