الخلاصة:
This dissertation tackles the recent events in our daily and academic lives that we had and are going through, the issue of the COVID-19Pandemic, and its effects on the academic performance of students. The accumulation of courses and lessons in a short period accompanied by the overflow and surplus of the information received; put together, had negatively impacted some students; resulting in an underperformance, a lack of comprehension, and apprehension that is shown in mediocre results also a deficiency in incentives, desire, motivation and other psychological factors that are also highly present within students in these times accompanied with various mental health issues. To deal with this unprecedented situation; the higher education ministry and its institutions in ALGERIA (ALG) adopted a mixture of distance/online learning approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that students were safe while they received an uninterrupted, quality education off-campus. The purpose of this research was to explore the COVID-19 Pandemic’s impact on the students of the Ghardaïa university English department performance. This research used a qualitative approach. In this research, we examine how students perceive the impacts of the first wave of the crisis in early 2020 till nowadays on various aspects of their lives. The result of this study is that there is some negative impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the students of the English Department performance.
