How does an Advanced Educator Utilize Digital Language Teaching and Learning by Integrating Linguistic, Cultural, and Business Life Perspectives?
TL;DR
This paper explores advanced educators’ digital working capabilities in online language teaching, with a particular focus on sharing Finnish language and culture in a foreign context, and highlights how educators must respond to profound changes in their working environments.
Abstract
This paper explores advanced educators’ digital working capabilities in online language teaching, with a particular focus on sharing Finnish language and culture in a foreign context. Cultural and linguistic knowledge play a significant role in enhancing students’ motivation to study foreign languages. In today’s educational environment, digitalisation and globalisation exert an increasing influence on foreign language teaching and learning. The digital learning environment has brought about a paradigm shift in foreign language didactics. Digital language learning is both challenging and holistic in nature. Continued foreign language learning is simultaneously an individual and a social process, as digital learning cultures impose new and often unexpected demands on both teachers and learners. This study highlights how educators must respond to profound changes in their working environments. The COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, accelerated the transition from classroom-based teaching to online instruction, requiring educators to demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and digital competence. As a result, educators have increasingly focused on designing and delivering online courses and have demonstrated a willingness, readiness, and ability to employ digital teaching methods.