Communicative Teaching for the ESL/EFL Classroom

This practical course provides teachers with the principles of communicative teaching, discussing simple ways to create a more dynamic, interactive classroom. It offers a variety of effective techniques for making students active participants in the learning process. In addition, the course includes a number of lively activities teachers can use in the classroom to encourage students to interact and improve their language skills, especially listening and speaking.

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions.

Kevin Keating teaches at the Center for ESL at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has taught ESL/EFL for more than thirty-five years in thirteen different countries around the world. An ESL grammar series author and frequent conference presenter, Kevin regularly gives teacher-training workshops both in the U.S. and abroad focusing on dynamic communicative classroom activities. Kevin was honored as the 2004 Arizona-TESOL Educator of the Year and in 2005 as the recipient of a University of Arizona College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award.

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Requirements:

Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

Syllabus:

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

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