Abstract
Teaching and learning took place differently before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic changed the way people lead their lives – switching from traditional teaching (face-to-face) in a public setting to online teaching due to social distancing. The teaching system was forced to accommodate distance learning during COVID-19 to complete academic studies. As a result, some Gulf countries found it difficult to implement distance learning and blended learning due to a lack of infrastructure and other challenges and difficulties. In online teaching, to adequately meet the individual needs of students, effective communication and cooperation between the teacher and the student is required. Thus, this research seeks to determine the differences in teaching and learning during COVID-19. The major aim is to determine how teaching and learning occurred before COVID-19 and how effective they were during COVID-19. This paper studies teachers' use of multimodality in teaching and their perceptions, knowledge, and experiences before and during COVID-19. It also explores the implications and impact of using multimodality in teaching in line with technology before and during COVID-19. Additionally, it investigates the opinion of the teachers regarding their students' interpretation and interaction with multimodality.
Highlights
Multimodality is a research field that focuses on the communication and representation of multiple socially developed modes for meaning-making purposes (Lyons, 2016)
The major aim is to determine how teaching and learning occurred before COVID-19 and how effective they were during COVID-19
This paper studies teachers' use of multimodality in teaching and their perceptions, knowledge, and experiences before and during COVID-19
Summary
Multimodality is a research field that focuses on the communication and representation of multiple socially developed modes for meaning-making purposes (Lyons, 2016). These modes include layouts, colors, images, sounds, speeches, or gestures, and they are viewed as organized materials developed by societies to reflect their history, culture, tradition, and heritage. They have a meaning-making that gets interpreted differently in various societies and social groups based on the way they perceive to shape and express power relations, ideologies, and values Adami, (2016). The foregoing makes multimodality highly dependent on context, making its meaning dependent on particular cultural and social frameworks that influence communication in different communities (Lyons, 2016)
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