The study was rescheduled for Autumn 2020 and to avoid another failure to gather enough data, I went to great lengths to recruit more participants. Some participants who had pulled out from the pilot promised to participate if “life went back to normal” and they could return to their classroom, so first, they were approached. One participant from the pilot, Johanna, promised to do more activities with her group, so she remained to be an informant. Then, a call was placed in a popular group for Hungarian EFL teachers to participate in the study and all in all, 16 teachers decided to take part. They were then familiarized with the procedure, sent a Google Drive link with all the materials (worksheets, teacher guides, feedback sheet for the students, folders to upload their reflections to) and a timeline for the study. Four teachers then did not start to do the activities with their groups due to various reasons, and finally data was gathered from 12 groups and the same 12 teachers of these groups participated in the focus group interview as well. Table 3.17 shows the teachers, the profile of the groups that took part in the study, involving their grade, level, members, the school they went to, teachers and the activities they did in class.

 

 

As it can be seen from Table 3.17, most of the teachers taught in a secondary grammar school in Budapest, and only four participants were involved from the countryside. As an important criterion for selection was that they needed to teach 16–18-year-olds, so people who are likely to become eligible to vote in the next national elections, all the teachers participated with their 10–12th grader students. Another important criterion turned out to be the language level of the group, as the worksheets created were suitable for students with B2–C1 level of English. The group sizes varied between 8 and 17 students, and adding the numbers together, officially 158 students did the activities in class and thus participated in the study. The students were all informed by their teachers that data were to be collected and they had the opportunity not to participate by not filling in the online feedback questionnaire.