Distance Education Problems in Foreign Language Education During the Pandemic Period

The purpose of this research is to determine the difficulties experienced in foreign language education at the university due to the transition from face-to-face education to distance education due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The population of the research includes undergraduate and graduate students studying German and English (teaching-literature-translation) in the spring term of 2020-2021. The sample consists of 294 students from this population who answered the online survey. In the research, a questionnaire consisting of 5 personal information questions and the “distance education problems scale” developed by the researchers were used. The scale consists of 53 items in 6 subscales. The data were collected using the google academic survey on the internet. In addition to descriptive statistics, t-test technique was used for intergroup comparisons in the analysis of the data. Students of foreign language departments think that the distance education method is not successful in foreign language teaching.