Journal of English Language Teaching

The Predicament of Rural College Students during the Pandemic: An ELA Website for their Rescue

Roopna Ravindran

Assistant Professor of English, Government Degree College, Chevella, Telangana, India.

Keywords: ELA and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Learning English by Rural College Students, Online Solution for ELA

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Abstract

This paper aims to show how a website created by an English teacher helps rural college students to improve their proficiency in English. This customised website is a boon for the rural students during the pandemic, with its video lessons, extracts from the textbooks, and other exciting learning materials. Fiction, comics, poems, audiobooks, auto-updated short news clippings, dictionaries, reference books, verbal reasoning materials for competitive exams, and so on, are available on a single online platform. Students can make use of this simple and user-friendly website at their own pace.

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