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Understanding Social and Emotional Intelligence Skills Development of
Undergraduate Students Through Virtual Classes:
An Analytical Study

Dr. A. Suresh Babu and Mr. Sree Raghu Ram Koduru

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic swept the whole world like a storm and greatly affected the mankind on various fronts, especially on economy, psychological and social aspects, health, and education. One of the badly affected areas is education system across the world which had undergone several changes. The pandemic has forced the academic sector to a paradigm shift from the offline learning to the virtual learning. Though, the virtual learning is not a new to the world, the implementation of the forced learning has several gaps to be discussed and addressed. At this point, the present study focused on the impact of virtual learning to develop soft skills such as social and emotional intelligence skills. The present paper aims to analyses the learning behaviour of the students and their opinion towards virtual learning related to socializing and developing emotional intelligence skills during the online classes. The study found that soft skills can be effectively learned and improved in the classroom environment rather virtually (Thi Thu and Hong, 2021). The findings of the study suggest to review about impact of the teaching and learning process; especially in soft skills through virtual learning is questionable because the soft skills are as a part of socializing and emotional intelligence skills rather information sharing. As a result, the students opined that they need more interaction with trainers and peers to understand and develop their socializing and emotional intelligence.

Keywords: emotional intelligence skills, students’ opinions, virtual and offline learning, social interaction.

1. Introduction

The sudden outbreak of the Covid-19 has changed the entire scenario of the world. The pandemic has stalled physical activities of almost all business across the world; such as public services and education sector. Due to the pandemic, governments responded with strict lock downs and restrictions to save the lives of people. And the world shifted quickly to virtual working and learning method. The impact is very visible on the education sector; after the lockdown of the schools, colleges, and universities; millions of the students and teachers (UN, 2020) around the world try to adopt new learning reality i.e., virtual learning or online learning. Since the pandemic outbreak, teachers and students prepared for virtual experience for long hours to avoid the infection. Virtual platform such as Zoom, Micro Soft Teams, Webex, Google meet, etc is very popular for the community of teachers and students. To transfer the knowledge, virtual learning is regarded as flexible and user friendly and it is recognised as necessary transition for the beneficiaries.

Despite benefits of the virtual learning to teach and transfer knowledge to the students; there are practical problems such as difficulty in conducting online examination and assessing the performance of the students and practical assessment in laboratories found to be impractical with virtual flat forms. Moreover, a course like Soft Skills cannot be taught virtually because students need social interaction and sharing their emotional intelligence in Group Discussions, SWOC Analysis and JOHARI window. According to Vygotsky "the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem-solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers" (Vygotsky, 1978, p. 86). It emphasizes child’s knowledge and psychological development are connected with interaction in peers.

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Dr. A. Suresh Babu and Mr. Sree Raghu Ram Koduru
Asst Professor of English
VFSTR Deemed to be University
Guntur -Tenali Rd, Vadlamudi 522213
Andhra Pradesh
sureshbabued@gmail.com

Mr. Sree Raghu Ram Koduru
Asst Professor of English
VFSTR Deemed to be University
Guntur -Tenali Rd, Vadlamudi 522213
Andhra Pradesh
ksreeraghuram@yahoo.co.in
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