Abstract
This study is a practical report on real-time online English lessons for arts and sciences conducted at a university in Kansai area under the COVID-19 outbreak. The lessons were conducted online synchronously in real time as a virtually face-to-face, once-a-week English class. The lessons were planned to provide opportunities to learn English interactively online virtually face-to-face for the second- to the fourth-year students at an undergraduate level, who missed the chance to have their actual face-to-face lessons in the classroom. A total of 42 students registered for the class: 35 students attended the class regularly and 7 students did not appear in the class at all without handing in a report of absence. Hence the report analyzed the data of a total of 35 regularly attended students. The result found that the attended students positioned their real-time online English lessons as a hub of their English language learning while staying at home. The students seemed to be positively and proactively involved in their English learning even under restricted situations staying at home hit by the COVID-19 outbreak.
