Presenter

Emily Reynolds, BizEnglish.com, Boulder, Colorado, USA

When?

8 July - 4 August 2013

Registration

Space in each course in limited to the first 18 participants, with no more than 6 participants at the special rate.

Deadline: 7 days before the course starts

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More About This Course

Online ESL/EFL instructors can take advantage of the multimedia richness of the Internet to teach listening skills. Teaching Listening Online begins by examining basic issues with background readings and discussions. We investigate how to teach listening online and how to find free listening resources on the Internet. Then, in the hands-on segment, participants experiment with several tech tools and are invited to customize their approach so that they address their own most significant needs or interests. Applications include creating voice recordings for students with Audacity or PureVoice. Participants work individually or in pairs on a short project of their choosing to create and customize web-based listening lessons for their online or face-to-face students.

What Will I Learn?

• background and overview of issues in online listening
• identify and discuss uses of great Internet sites for listening at a variety of levels
• digitally record listening activities for your students
• create a listening lesson using digitally recorded materials embedded in a web page

About the Instructor

Emily Reynolds is an ESOL consultant and Academic Director at BizEnglish.com located in Boulder, Colorado, USA where she designs and delivers online courses in Business English for international business people. The former Director of Business English Programs at the Economics Institute, University of Colorado, she has taught, designed curriculum and courses, directed programs and written nine ESL textbooks over the last 30 years. Her latest book English for Global Business (University of Michigan Press) recently won TESOL’s Materials Development Award. Emily founded BizEnglish in 1997, and has been working online and face-to-face to deliver language and teacher training courses since then.