Internet-Hosted English Learning at UCAS: Licensed Ticket Towards the Future

Abstract

The current investigation reveals the relationship between the students’ perceptions of a sense of community, success in the team development process, and their preferences for studying in teams in an online English language course during the academic year 2022–2023. The study mainly concentrates on whether the online sense of community can be used as a predictor of success in the team development process to identify the patterns of studying English language courses online. The descriptive-analytical approach is adopted, as the instrument of the study is a google-form questionnaire that was sent to all the enrolled UCAS students. The main findings of the study highlight that the domain of community sense ranked first, followed by the domain of success in the team development process. The results also show a positive correlation between the perceptions of UCAS students’ sense of belonging to the community and success in the team development process. additionally, the students' tendencies are towards both individual and group work in a virtual learning environment, while variables like gender, academic level, and deanship fell short of denoting significant indicators when measuring the students’ sense of community and their success in the team development process, and their preferences for studying in online groups.