Adapting Approaches and Methods to Teaching English Online: Theory and Practice

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.