Implementing an online English linguistics course during the Covid-19 emergency in Italy: Teacher’s and students’ perspectives

Foreword Crises breed wide arrays of diversified reactions in human minds, ranging from utter dismay to a dogged determination to extract silver linings from the darkest clouds. In her paper, Antonella Luporini illustrates the latter disposition well. She explains how she promptly reorganised a BA’s third-year ESP module to teach it online in reaction to the sudden Covid-19 lockdown that closed Italy’s northern universities in spring 2020. Her report is both concise and detailed enough to und...