Teachers' Perceptions of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Teaching of English Grammar at University Level

الملخص

         The use of recent technologies has posed new challenges to teachers in terms of developing suitable teaching approaches of language teaching and learning and looking for the ways to set their online courses to achive  utmost benefits. As such, teachers who adopt online teaching should be equipped with the necessary technology skills, content knowledge, communicative and organizational skills, and motivation to be able to assess and pinpoint the extent to which the shift from face-to-face teaching to online teaching  could be advantageous. This research investigates the problem that little research has conducted on the teachers' teching practices and the challenges they face. The current research aims at identifying university teachers of grammar perceptions. It hypothesizes that (1) online teaching is quite beneficial and its advantages obtained outweigh the disadvantages, (2) there are no differences between male and female teachers perceptions the advantages and disadvantages of this mode of teaching.  To achieve the aim and validate the hypotheses, a 20-item questionnaire has been constructed. The questionnaire got validity by  a panel of juries and proved reliable (0.86 value) by presenting it twice to 5 university teachers of grammar. Hence, the could be administered to a sample of 12 university teachers of grammar (8 males and 4 females) at universities of Mosul, Duhok and Zakho. On analyzing the collected data, the values representing the advantages outweighed the disadvantages and there were no differences between the sample's perceptions in terms of their gender,