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This research article aims to show the academic achievement in the form of marks of students of the third year’s subject ‘Teaching and Learning English’ located in the Degree in Primary Education (Faculty of Education, Universidad de Murcia, Spain). Our corpus of participants has five different groups (including the bilingual group) with a total number of n=1496 students with an average per academic year of n=374 students whose marks have been analysed comparing four different academic years. Taking into account the subject programme, the performance of the students during the normal year, during the lockdown, in the blended learning yeart (face-to-face and online) and in the return-to-normal year have been analysed. The results show that in both the lockdown and the blended learning year the performance is higher than in the other academic years, which leads us to question whether the pandemic really influenced the assessment and teaching conditions of the subject.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2023.47.3.31-40
Date of publication: 2023-11-08 11:50:10
Date of submission: 2022-11-30 19:30:11
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