Structuring Fun for Young Language Learners Online: Turning enjoyment into engaging language practice during internet-based lessons at primary level (Teaching English Online) - Softcover

Chris Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191341485X ISBN 13: 9781913414856

Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Structuring Fun for Young Language Learners Online aims to provide ELT teachers, directors of studies and academic managers with advice about making the transition to teaching online, including: examples related to the author’s own experience; online safety and best practice; managing your online classroom, dealing with stress and supporting learners; adapting traditional tasks and making the most of the online medium. The book includes a wide range of colourful activities and numerous illustrations and examples from actual online classes. Throughout, the goal is to help make lessons enjoyable for both teacher and learners. The emphasis is on low-tech, low-prep lessons with maximum results, whilst keeping the focus clearly centred upon the goal of increasing children’s familiarity with and ability to produce words and sentences in English.

In Structuring Fun for Young Language Learners Online the author examines how many principles of best practice (as covered in Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom, Chris Roland, Pavilion Publishing, 2020) from face-to-face lessons translate to online teaching. The author highlights what teachers will need to approach a little differently, and looks at where the new medium allows us to do things that we could not do so easily before. Whether you are a new teacher, a seasoned veteran or teacher trainer with young learners classes this is the book for you.

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About the Author

Chris Roland is a teacher, trainer and ‘ideas man’, well-known for his lively but practical sessions on the international conference circuit. He has taught in both the private academy sector and mainstream education system in Spain as well as holding posts with the British Council in Damascus and Barcelona. He works with teachers across a wide range of contexts. These include in-house training for ELI, the language school where he is based in Seville; intensive courses on methodology for Lexical Lab, London and tutoring on Trinity Diploma courses for Oxford TEFL, Barcelona. He is a regular speaker at events organised by TESOL Spain and has a close working relationship with APPI, the association for teachers of English in Portugal. He has recently made repeat appearances for Teachers for Teachers, Ukraine, and has been co-moderator at the ELT Trends conference in Moscow. He is the author of Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom (Pavilion Publishing, 2018) and Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom (Pavilion Publishing, 2020).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191341485X
• ISBN 13: 9781913414856
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128