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Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program: Course Schedule and Descriptions

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Upcoming Courses 

PP101: Teaching Speaking and Real-Time Communication Online

Presenter

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

When?

5 August -1 September 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

Although language teachers understand that the most significant skill for many learners may be speaking, a distinct challenge in teaching ESL/EFL online is working with speaking and real-time communication. This course addresses current capabilities in real-time voice communication over the Internet. We explore ways to make this aspect of language teaching come alive in real-time in an online context. We begin by gaining background by readings in this area. During group hands-on work, we examine and practice with useful applications for real-time speaking. These include voice email, voice discussion boards, web conferencing, and instant messaging/conferencing with voice using Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. Each application is considered individually in a hands-on approach that will enable you to work on speaking skills in real-time with your students worldwide.

What Will I Learn?

  • survey and discuss current capabilities in real-time communication online
  • download and practice using voice-enabled messenger services such as Yahoo! Messenger, and VoIP application Skype
  • research and report on sophisticated web conferencing software and other real-time virtual environments

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.