Adapting Approaches and Methods to Teaching English Online

Dionysios I. Psoinos has more than 20 years’ experience in teaching English and Greek as a foreign language and has worked in secondary and tertiary education in Greece, the UK, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. He holds the Cambridge DELTA, an MA in TESOL and ICT from the University of Brighton, UK, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Language and Communication. He is currently teaching at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA.

• Preface.- Introduction.- Chapter 1 – Modes, Media and the Online Teaching Space.- 1.1 Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Blended.- 1.2 The Screen as the Online Teaching Setting.- 1.3 Properties of the virtual space and implications for online language teaching.- 1.4 Online tools and their pedagogical value.- 1.5 Practical Problems (power, connection, server, system failure, classroom management, etiquette, integrity of assessment).- 1.6 The online setting to come.- Chapter 2 – Beyond the Online Teaching & Learning Platform.- 2.1 The Learner, the Teacher, and other considerations.- 2.2 Critical Digital Pedagogy.- 2.3 Ethics.- 2.4 Teachers’ Roles and Skills.- 2.5 Learners’ Roles and Skills.- 2.6 Re-inventing Teacher & Learner Identity.- 2.7 Teacher Education for Online Language Teachers.- Chapter 3 – Online Language Teaching Pedagogy.- 3.1 Theories of Learning.- 3.1.1 Behaviourism.- 3.1.2 Constructivism (Piaget).- 3.1.3 Social Constructivism (Vygotsky).- 3.1.4 Computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL).- 3.1.5 Multiple intelligences.- 3.1.6 Connectivism.- 3.2 The ‘established’ Approaches and Methods and the Online Classroom.- 3.2.1 Grammar & Translation.