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Record Nr.

UNINA9910492152203321

Autore

Psoinos Dionysios I.

Titolo

Adapting Approaches and Methods to Teaching English Online : Theory and Practice / / by Dionysios I. Psoinos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-79919-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Education, , 2211-193X

Disciplina

428.0071

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Educational technology

Language Teaching and Learning

Digital Education and Educational Technology

Language Education

Ensenyament de la llengua

Aprenentatge electrònic

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 – Modes, Media and the Online Teaching Space -- 1.1 Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Blended -- 1.2 The Screen as the Online Teaching Setting -- 1.3 Properties of the virtual space and implications for online language teaching -- 1.4 Online tools and their pedagogical value -- 1.5 Practical Problems (power, connection, server, system failure, classroom management, etiquette, integrity of assessment) -- 1.6 The online setting to come -- Chapter 2 – Beyond the Online Teaching & Learning Platform -- 2.1 The Learner, the Teacher, and other considerations -- 2.2 Critical Digital Pedagogy -- 2.3 Ethics -- 2.4 Teachers’ Roles and Skills -- 2.5 Learners’ Roles and Skills -- 2.6 Re-inventing Teacher & Learner Identity -- 2.7 Teacher Education for Online Language Teachers -- Chapter 3 – Online Language Teaching Pedagogy -- 3.1 Theories of Learning -- 3.1.1 Behaviourism -- 3.1.2 Constructivism (Piaget) -- 3.1.3 Social Constructivism (Vygotsky) -- 3.1.4 Computer-supported



Collaborative Learning (CSCL) -- 3.1.5 Multiple intelligences -- 3.1.6 Connectivism -- 3.2 The ‘established’ Approaches and Methods and the Online Classroom -- 3.2.1 Grammar & Translation.

Sommario/riassunto

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.