Issues in English Language Teaching & Testing in Nepal During Pandemic
Keywords:
Covid -19, Pandemic, English Language Assessment Issues, Difficult circumstancesAbstract
This paper highlights the issues created in English language testing by the covid-19 pandemic. Highlighting the basic essence of testing in ELT this paper explores the teachers' experiences during the test in the covid-19 pandemic situation. Including the detailed interview/narrative of the teachers who are teaching the English language in different parts of Nepal, this paper thematically analyzed the difficult circumstances faced by the teachers.
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