OKARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra
Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): OKARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra

“It's Frustrating, but…”: Brazilian and Indonesian Teachers’ Resilience to Assist Deaf Students’ Online Language Learning

Antonio Henrique Coutelo de Moraes (Department of Languages and Literatures, School of Education and Humanities, Catholic University of Pernambuco, Recife 50050-900)
Rohmani Nur Indah (Department of English Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Malang 65145)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 May 2022

Abstract

Due to the recent increase in studies on emotions in Applied Linguistics and, especially now, in pandemic times, it opens more discussion to relate teachers' emotions with several other aspects including resilience. Therefore, this research aims to analyze language teachers’ experience in teaching deaf students in Recife, Brazil, and Malang, Indonesia. The methodology applied was qualitative. This study involved teachers in Recife, Brazil, and Malang, Indonesia. The teachers selected to be interviewed in this study were those who had experience teaching deaf students for at least five years and those who, during the pandemic times taught online. Two teachers were taken from each city. Findings point out, among other things, that decreasing the number of students per class and having parents involved in the process may help improve students' learning and teachers' experience and resilience. Based on the data on the implementation of language learning and the teachers' perception of the benefit, the constraints, and strategies in online language learning, resilience is triggered by the professional, personal, institutional, and community challenges.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

okara

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The journal publishes research papers in the field of linguistics, literature, and language teaching, such as fundamentals of ELT, the sound of the word of the language, structure, meaning, language and gender, sociolinguistic, language philosophy, history of linguistic, origin/evolution, ...