Course: Teaching English Online

We’ve talked about gaining a rapport and maintaining engagement in online lessons. Let’s now turn to classroom management. Task Watch the video of Lindsay and Marie Therese talking about how …

Maintaining engagement can be harder in an online environment, especially in contexts where learners haven’t selected to learn online but have to because of necessity, and where class sizes are …

One difference between face-to-face lessons and online lessons is a reduced ability to see all your learners on screen at the same time. This may be because learners don’t switch …

No matter how experienced we are in teaching online, issues will arise that we need to deal with. Task Match problems 1-6 to solutions A-F. Do the matching task interactively …

If you teach groups and have access to breakout rooms, you can include collaborative writing tasks in your live online lessons. You can also ask learners to complete collaborative writing …

One way to safeguard our privacy and the privacy of our learners is to ask them to blur their background or add a photograph to act as a virtual background. …

The interactive whiteboard feature of a platform can be very useful when clarifying the meaning, form and pronunciation of new language, among other things. Task If you’re unfamiliar with how …

When working with groups of learners, it can be really beneficial to use breakout rooms for pair and group work if you have access to them. Task 1 If you’re …

We’ve talked about sharing your screen. When you want to play audio or video on your device for learners to hear/watch, you may need to tick a button that allows …

Organising, managing and assessing speaking tasks in online learning contexts is both similar and different to doing the same in face-to-face lessons. Task Listen to Lindsay and Marie Therese talking …

We’ve looked at teaching reading and listening skills in online lessons. Let’s now think about how we might assess these skills in the online context. Task Read the article below …

Before we think about planning and delivering receptive skills lessons, let’s start by thinking about planning online lessons in general. Planning online lessons is similar in many ways to planning …

We’ve come to the end of the second week of the course and, in this video, Lindsay and Marie Therese look back at some of the main talking points of …