Teaching English Online: From Course to Practice
Teaching English Online: From Course to Practice
Author(s): Florina CodreanuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: training course; online class; digital communication; teaching & learning platform; shared knowledge;
Summary/Abstract: The year 2020 is by default dedicated to online teaching, changing learningbehaviours, and virtualised classrooms. Looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19pandemic is one of the greatest challenges the education professionals all over the worldhave faced in recent months. Be it Blackboard Learn, Skype, Google Hangouts/ Classroom/Meet, Whereby, Zoom, WebRoom, Edmodo, Microsoft Teams and so on, the Englishlanguage teachers around the world have been struggling to find their new voice lent itselfto the current international situation and to keep themselves on a steep learning curve interms of digital environments and online platforms know-how. In response to theteachers’ growing need, Cambridge Assessment English offered via www.FutureLearn.coma 4-week course about Teaching English Online, and the present paper intends to describeand analyse how the training course was delivered and used afterwards within onlineEnglish classes.
Journal: Acta Technica Napocensis - Languages For Specific Purposes
- Issue Year: 20/2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 29-37
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
