About this ebook
100 Ways to Teach Language Online will give you simple, powerful, and effective teaching tools as you make the switch from a traditional classroom to an online setting. Designed to be practical, the activities in this book will get students to communicate and interact, and make language come alive in the online classroom while still meeting the needs of the digital learning environment.
This book is organized in easy to follow categories that include the most common activities in English language teaching, as well as a lesson planning overview. The lesson plans are broken up into Warm-ups, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, Listening Activities, Reading Activities, Writing Activities, Speaking Activities, Vocabulary Activities, and Teaching Language Learner Autonomy.
Above all, this manual is your toolbox, meaning that it is best used when you feel stuck or unable to think of how best to teach a particular subject matter. In other words, think of this book as a way to jumpstart your brain…especially when it stalls. The activities are academically sound, easy to follow and implement, can be easily adapted to a number of contexts, take little or no time to prepare, and are adaptable to all learning levels.
Whether you are new to online teaching or simply need a quick reference guide to get your creative juices flowing, this is the book for you.
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About the author
Dr. Dixon has 20 years of TESOL experience, and has taught in Venezuela, Mexico, Iraq, and the US. He has helped design teacher training programs for groups from China, Korea, Japan, Iraq, Peru, and Mexico, and has created language programs for companies such as General Electric (Brazil), LG (Korea), and Toyota (Japan). He is the co-designer of the popular series, Teach English Now! at www.coursera.org, where he helps thousands of aspiring teachers obtain a TESOL Certificate from Arizona State University. He holds a doctorate in educational technology from Arizona State University and a master’s in English (with an emphasis in language planning and policy) from Brigham Young University. He is the author of 100 TESOL Activities: Practical ESL/EFL Activities for the Communicative Classroom.
Dr. Shewell is the co-designer and primary producer for the largest TESOL certificate course in the world, Teach English Now! This program, currently on the Coursera platform, boasts 250,000 learners from 194 different countries. He has taught English in the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. He is the author of 50 Ways to Teach Online, and several other book chapters and articles on language teaching and using technology in the language classroom. He is a regular presenter at international and regional conferences on language teaching and educational technology. Dr. Shewell holds a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Arizona State University and a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Brigham Young University.
Jenny has 23 years of teaching experience, including elementary school, online, and at the collegiate level. She has a Master’s degree in Elementary Education with a reading endorsement, as well as a TESOL certificate earned through Dr. Dixon’s and Dr. Shewell’s Teach English Now! course on Coursera. Jenny has taught English to Chinese students online for the past three years, and was privileged to teach English in Jinan, China. She helps recruit teachers and students to do an international exchange program in China each summer. Currently she teaches reading courses at a local community college, as well as courses at ASU for students in the Mary Lou Fulton Teacher Education program, and supervises students while in their student teaching residency.
