This study aims to structuralize and identify how the awareness of participation and behaviors of college students in virtual English conversation classes changed. To analyze the awareness of college students in virtual English conversation classes and their behavioral changes, grounded theory was used, and data were collected from in-depth interviews based on the inductive approach and theorizing aforementioned phenomena. For this, an integrated framework was suggested based on core categories with open, axis, and selective coding. Findings showed that, 20 students made an effort in interactive communication through the virtual lessons, and their feelings changed from skepticism towards their virtual-learning college experiences to seek their learning motivation and the meaning of self-realization in virtual English conversation classes. In addition, interactive strategies were required in seeking bi-directional communicative methods to improve students’ learning motivation. It was also found that the students needed to realize how their methods of communication were different from others and to have an empathic understanding of others.