Faced with the greatest
disruption in modern times, educational systems around the world are trying to
do their best to respond to the educational implications of the COVID-19
pandemic in the most effective way possible. This case study aims to find out how
an ESAP course for law students at a foundation university in central Turkey
copes with the challenges of the obligatory migration from face-to-face
instruction to online instruction, and whether there is a need for curriculum
renewal. In the investigation of the needs of the curriculum renewal for online
instruction, we focused on data collected through document review,
questionnaires, and interviews as part of needs analysis and environment
analysis for the identification of the revisions needed in each domain of the
curriculum design process. Our findings point to major revisions in format and
presentation, monitoring and assessment, and evaluation with minor revisions in
content. The study also found that teachers are in urgent need of pedagogical
and technological support and training to better cope with the consequences of
the migration.
Keywords: Online instruction,
course renewal, language curriculum design, COVID-1
