Elements of the Virtual Teaching and Learning Process that Promote Input and Significant Learning in EFL

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Abstract.

The foreign language teaching/learning process produces and relies on input to reach communicative competence. Successful face-to-face classes provide students with context, interaction, real-world examples, real-time interaction, social skills, and a sense of commitment that enriches input for learners to develop communicative competence. As a result of the worldwide pandemic Covid 19, online teaching approached education as an emergency virtual option through asynchronous and synchronous sessions. This case study is aimed at gathering the pedagogical positive outcomes that virtual learning promoted. With that, it enhanced the input that may be used prospectively as didactical reinforcement in face-to-face classroom settings.