Adapting Approaches and Methods to Teaching English Online: Theory and Practice (SpringerBriefs in Education) - Softcover

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Psoinos, Dionysios I.

 
9783030799182: Adapting Approaches and Methods to Teaching English Online: Theory and Practice (SpringerBriefs in Education)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3030799182 ISBN 13: 9783030799182
Publisher: Springer, 2021

Synopsis

This book provides a framework for synchronous and asynchronous online language teaching. It elaborates on the key features of an online teaching setting, including the instructional media that are involved in it, their affordances and limitations, and recommends ways to adapt pedagogy to suit the online environment. To this end, the book draws on well-established language teaching methods that have been widely used in the physical classroom and puts them to the test by applying them online. This results in the emergence of an e-clectic approach that enables language teachers to be flexible and intentional in their online classroom-related decisions and combines good practices that cut across the broader methodological spectrum with personal teaching preferences, teaching style, and stakeholders’ specifications always considering the capabilities of the setting and the tools currently available to teachers and learners. 

The book enables teachers to be critical and reflective of their own online teaching practices and equips them, via analysis of live online language sessions, with the necessary skills to confidently engage with screen layout. It also addresses the prominent issue of adapting teacher and learner identity in the online context, and examines their respective roles in online language sessions in a holistic way, offering guidance and support for the practicing online language teacher.

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About the Author

Dionysios I. Psoinos has more than 20 years’ experience in teaching English and Greek as a foreign language and has worked in secondary and tertiary education in Greece, the UK, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. He holds the Cambridge DELTA, an MA in TESOL and ICT from the University of Brighton, UK, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Language and Communication. He is currently teaching at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030799182
ISBN 13 
9783030799182
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
135