A Mask and Communication: "impossible alliance" or "promise of evolution" Didactico-pedagogical approaches to beeffective: Teachingwith or without a mask, two different practices

Authors

  • Messaouda MEKHILEF

Keywords:

teacher,mask,communication,accoustic, pragmatical

Abstract

 « how to teachwith a masked face ? »  « what are the  challengesthatawait the universityteachersespecially and how to face them ?»

In fact, face-to-face teaching, whereteachers and students are masked, isstrongly and unfavorablyimpacted.Teaching in an amphitheaterwearing a maskisnearlylikefishing in the desert .

- Phonetically, the voicebecomeshoarse, causing, little by little, the dilution of the interest in the message: the motivations, on bothsides, end up fading,with, as a bonus, a certain healthriskespecially for the teacher for example , physiologically, the respiratoryfunction of teachers (especially) isaltered, whichgenerallydisrupts and pollutes the acoustic bath.

- Physiologically, all the conditions for a good deployment of communication / lessons are absent becausetheycannotbeaffected :face expressions , poses ,movements and body manners . itcognitivelyresultsa interference of the material conditions of learningwhich causes : « aloss of overall speech intelligibility »

- Pragmatically, the dispensation of the presencial courses underthese conditions wouldlearn a veryapproximateoralization of the online courses.

Indeed, itwouldbewrong to consider the linguistic translation /formulation of the courses as real courses, but far fromit …

Published

2026-11-01

How to Cite

Messaouda MEKHILEF. (2026). A Mask and Communication: "impossible alliance" or "promise of evolution" Didactico-pedagogical approaches to beeffective: Teachingwith or without a mask, two different practices. Human Resources Development Research, 17(02), 878–898. Retrieved from https://rdrh.univ-setif2.dz/index.php/rdrh/article/view/472

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