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Adapting Approaches and Methods to Teaching English Online

Theory and Practice

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Authors:
  1. Dionysios I. Psoinos

    1. English Language Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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  • Applies major language teaching and learning theories online
  • Provides examples of complete online lessons and activities
  • Evaluates language lessons and adapts approaches and methods to the online setting

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Modes, Media and the Online Teaching Space

    • Dionysios I. Psoinos
    Pages 1-24

  3. Beyond the Online Teaching and Learning Platform

    • Dionysios I. Psoinos
    Pages 25-47

  4. Online Language Teaching Pedagogy

    • Dionysios I. Psoinos
    Pages 49-93

  5. Theory and Practice

    • Dionysios I. Psoinos
    Pages 95-115

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 117-119
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About this book

This book provides a framework for synchronous and asynchronous online language teaching. It elaborates on the key features of an online teaching setting, including the instructional media that are involved in it, their affordances and limitations, and recommends ways to adapt pedagogy to suit the online environment. To this end, the book draws on well-established language teaching methods that have been widely used in the physical classroom and puts them to the test by applying them online. This results in the emergence of an e-clectic approach that enables language teachers to be flexible and intentional in their online classroom-related decisions and combines good practices that cut across the broader methodological spectrum with personal teaching preferences, teaching style, and stakeholders’ specifications always considering the capabilities of the setting and the tools currently available to teachers and learners. 


The book enables teachers to be critical and reflective of their own online teaching practices and equips them, via analysis of live online language sessions, with the necessary skills to confidently engage with screen layout. It also addresses the prominent issue of adapting teacher and learner identity in the online context, and examines their respective roles in online language sessions in a holistic way, offering guidance and support for the practicing online language teacher.

Authors and Affiliations

  • English Language Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Dionysios I. Psoinos

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adapting Approaches and Methods to Teaching English Online

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice

  • Authors: Dionysios I. Psoinos

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79919-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79918-2Published: 13 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79919-9Published: 12 July 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 119

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Education, general, Language Education

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