The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected all aspects of life, including the foreign language teaching contexts. Universities and schools abandoned classrooms and moved into online education settings. During immediate lockdowns which brought physical distancing, terms like "online", "virtual", and "distant" education started to dominate language teaching and learning. Universities and related institutions tried to ease the immediate transition from face-to-face education to online platforms while students and teachers began working from their homes. Educational institutions have taken advantage of various online synchronous platforms to quickly find an alternative way for face-to-face classes in the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those platforms that have been extensively used during these emergency circumstances is Zoom which is a video conferencing and online meeting service for both individual and group classes. Within this frame, this qualitative descriptive study aims to conceptualize the benefits of Zoom as a synchronous tool for online foreign language education at tertiary level during the COVID- 19 pandemic. In order to reach the objective, first the related literature on three specific words "Zoom", "language education" and "COVID-19" was concentrated by using Google Scholar search engine. Then, in order to limit the studies, the researchers focused on the ones indexed in the Web of Science. Thus, a total of four theoretical and empirical studies were collected and inductively analyzed. This inductive analysis revealed five main themes; Zoom (1) embodies beneficial functions and tools for educational contexts, (2) mediates the transition from face-to-face education to online education, (3) creates a psychologically comfortable atmosphere for online education, (4) provides synchronous interaction, communication and cooperation, and (5) helps develop foreign language skills. Additionally, based on these themes and the relevant literature on the benefits of Zoom, the researchers uncovered the associations among these five themes to conceptualize the actions and processes of forming the positive contributions of Zoom on foreign language teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. [This paper was published in: "Proceedings of the 7th International Mardin Artuklu Scientific Researches Conference: Social Sciences and Humanities," edited by Omer Gokhan Ulum and Hendri Hermawan Adinugraha, Farabi Publishing House, 2021, pp. 104-11.]