1st Edition

Teaching Language Online A Guide for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Online, Blended, and Flipped Language Courses

328 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Practical and accessible, this book comprehensively covers everything you need to know to design, develop, and deliver successful online, blended, and flipped language courses. Grounded in the principles of instructional design and communicative language teaching, this book serves as a compendium of best practices, research, and strategies for creating learner-centered online language instruction... Read more

Author Biographies

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: WHAT ARE THE BASICS OF ONLINE COURSE DESIGN?

CHAPTER 2: WHAT ARE THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF ONLINE TEACHING?

CHAPTER 3: WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT TEACHING LANGUAGE ONLINE?

CHAPTER 4: ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: WHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE AND WHO CAN HELP?

CHAPTER 5: A REVIEW OF RELEVANT RESEARCH ON ONLINE LANGUAGE TEACHING: WHAT WORKS AND WHY?

CONCLUSION

Index


 

Biography

Victoria Russell is Professor of Spanish and Foreign Language Education and Coordinator of Online Programs in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Valdosta State University, USA.

Kathryn Murphy-Judy is Associate Professor of French and Coordinator of Languages in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA. She also directs the Liberal Studies for Early and Elementary Education Program in the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

"Victoria Russell and Kathryn Murphy-Judy offer language teachers a timely and well-developed guide for online teaching and learning….The authors effortlessly guide readers through the process of conceptualizing, developing, and delivering online language classes in a variety of contexts. One chapter seamlessly flows to the next and provides readers relevant, timely research and ideas in order to create high-quality online language courses. For years, Drs. Russell and Murphy-Judy have been researching online teaching and learning, and this book is a succinct summary of many years of exceptional research."

--Pete Swanson, 2016 ACTFL President, Hispania, 104(3)September 2021