Prospects for online EFL instruction for Sudanese tertiary and secondary levels

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The educational system from elementary to tertiary level has been tremendously disturbed during the lockdown period of the novel coronavirus disease not only in Sudan but also across the whole globe.

Educationalists have been wondering whether the pandemic will change education forever to switch from in-class learning to virtual instruction.

This study is a visualization to predict the image of English language teaching amid and after the pandemic and to forecast the roles that the Sudanese EFL course-designers and teachers can play in the online instruction modes Also, how the new trends in teaching English that rely entirely on the web and social media tools such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, etc, and be adopted for the Sudanese basic education to tertiary level and the strategies for developing and implementing materials for virtual EFL instruction to Sudanese students.

The paper also aims to find out what strategies teachers need to prep themselves to teach their students effectively.

The paper employs interviews to study the perceptions of teachers on online teaching and evaluation strategies.

The interview questions involved the required essentialities of online teaching and learning in education amid the COVID-19 pandemic and how EFL course designers can effectively transform language learning materials into online instruction.

The results showed that it is extremely critical that both teachers and course designers respond to these urgent curricular needs of teaching English via the Internet as well as the significance to train the English language teachers for this purpose.