A Case Study on Teaching Reading Online with the Support of Canvas and Zoom

Abstract

COVID 19 has disastrous effects on the whole world; however, it has made a great contribution to teaching methodology. Almost all teachers have to change their normal teaching methods into online teaching because their students cannot come to class. Likewise, the author was assigned to teach a Reading class without providing students with their course books and other materials in advance, so she was really worried about whether she could carry out all activities like in a traditional class or not, interacting with her students, assigning and marking their homework. She came up with a new idea and she decided to carry out case study to see it effectiveness. In the case study, a Learning Management System named Canvas, CALL, Zoom and other applications such as Quizlet were applied to ensure the quality of her class and stimulate her students’ interests in each online lesson. The findings, after 5 months, showed that with the support of these pieces of technology, not only could she run her class very smoothly, but she could also see her students’ excitement in every lesson and their progress. As a consequence, the author is writing this article to address problems arising in and discuss the benefits of such technology in teaching and Reading online and share with other educators the way she combined these tools and ran her class in order to gain these significant achievements.