Language Learning in the Time of COVID-19: ELT Students’ Narrated Experiences in Guided Reflective Journals ; Aprendizaje de lenguas en tiempos de COVID-19: experiencias de docentes de inglés en formación consignadas en diarios reflexivos ; L'Apprentissage des langues au temps du COVID-19: des experiences des enseignants en formation consignées dans des journaux de réflexion ; Aprendizagem de línguas em tempos de COVID-19: experiências de docentes de inglês em formação consignados em diários reflexivos

This article presents the results of a qualitative study of the lived experiences and emotional responses regarding language learning of 29 students in a bachelor's degree in English language teaching (elt) offered at a public university in central Mexico. The study was grounded in sociocultural theory and was carried out at a time when the students' classes changed overnight to online learning due to the worldwide covid-19 pandemic. In this program, students learn a foreign language within a theoretical framework of second language acquisition (sla) and document their language learning experience (lle) through reflective journals. One month into the new online modality, they were asked to write in their journals about a historical artifact that would represent their experience dur­ing the pandemic for a historian 100 years in the future. A constant comparative method of analysis of their narrated stories reveals the challenges faced and ensu­ing emotions: from overwhelming anxiety to youthful optimism. These results provide an appreciation of students’ complex emotions regarding their language learning process while in the midst of a worldwide pandemic and highlight the importance of creating activities that promote reflection. ; En este artículo, presentamos los resultados de un estudio cualitativo fundamentado en la teoría sociocultural de las experiencias vividas de 29 estudiantes en clases de lengua extranjera como parte de un programa de Licenciatura en la Enseñanza del Inglés en una universidad pública del centro de México. El estudio se basó en teorías socioculturales y se llevó a cabo cuando sus aulas cambiaron al aprendizaje en línea debido a la pandemia mundial de covid-19. En este programa, los estudiantes aprenden una lengua extranjera dentro de un marco teórico de adquisición de idiomas y documentan su experiencia de aprendizaje de idiomas a través de diarios reflexivos. Un mes después de la nueva modalidad en línea, se pidió a los estudiantes que escribieran en sus diarios sobre un artefacto ...