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100 Ways to Teach Language Online.
100 Ways to Teach Language Online
Shane Dixon, Justin Shewell, Jenny Crandall
From the author of the best-selling 100 TESOL Activities comes an updated and expanded edition now revised for the online language teacher!
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
- 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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50 Ways to Learn a Language
Learning another language seems like an impossible task to many, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We like to think of learning a language as a journey or an adventure, where you follow clues and progress one step at a time toward your goal.
This book provides 50 language “mini adventures” -- learning tasks that each help you find your way along your language learning path. Let language experts Shane Dixon and Justin Shewell be your guides as you take these mini adventures, based on years of academic research and experience, and incorporate them into your daily life. You'll find meaningful interactions in your target language, and you'll have fun, too.
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50 Ways to Teach Online
Justin Shewell
One of the biggest myths in online teaching is that it is easier and less time-consuming than teaching face-to-face. Many institutions, in fact, assign online teachers a heavier work load because “Hey, they’re only teaching online.” The truth is that teaching online takes more time and effort than face-to-face teaching because as a teacher you have to work harder to engage and support your students.
This book contains 50 tips to help you be successful in online teaching, from choosing your platform to designing and building your courses to supporting students as they complete your learning activities and assessments.
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Justin Shewell
Dr. Shewell holds a doctorate in Educational Technology from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in TESOL from Brigham Young University. He has taught English in the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. More recently, Dr. Shewell co-designed Arizona State University’s online TESOL certificate program (Teach English Now!) at https://www.coursera.org/learn/english-principles on the Coursera platform. He also runs a website that allows teachers to create interactive vocabulary activities at http://eslactivities.com, and is the creator of the Perception of Spoken English (POSE) Test at http://posetest.com, a diagnostic tool for finding students’ specific problem areas in the pronunciation of English.
Dr. Shewell is available to conduct professional development workshops on topics ranging from technology in the English language classroom to creating and designing effective instructional materials.
