TY - GEN
T1 - Developing a pedagogically meaningful e-tutor training program for cyber face-to-face language teaching
AU - Chen, Nian Shing
AU - Wang, Yuping
AU - Wu, Ping Ju
AU - Levy, Mike
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This study explores essential processes for developing a pedagogically meaningful e-tutor training program for online synchronous language teaching. The pedagogical values of synchronous cyber classroom for language teaching are addressed and detailed descriptions of an online training program conducted for language teachers in a synchronous classroom teaching environment are presented. Forum postings regarding how teacher participants engaged with these processes and reflections on their own experience are categorized and analyzed to provide evidences for their professional development and competence acquirement. Findings suggest that following the e-tutor training program, all the participants were able to apply the online classroom management skills and online pedagogy learnt to real online teaching practices. Furthermore, they expressed a positive attitude towards the promising future of online synchronous language teaching.
AB - This study explores essential processes for developing a pedagogically meaningful e-tutor training program for online synchronous language teaching. The pedagogical values of synchronous cyber classroom for language teaching are addressed and detailed descriptions of an online training program conducted for language teachers in a synchronous classroom teaching environment are presented. Forum postings regarding how teacher participants engaged with these processes and reflections on their own experience are categorized and analyzed to provide evidences for their professional development and competence acquirement. Findings suggest that following the e-tutor training program, all the participants were able to apply the online classroom management skills and online pedagogy learnt to real online teaching practices. Furthermore, they expressed a positive attitude towards the promising future of online synchronous language teaching.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/52149083245
U2 - 10.1109/ICALT.2008.37
DO - 10.1109/ICALT.2008.37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52149083245
SN - 9780769531670
T3 - Proceedings - The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2008
SP - 361
EP - 365
BT - Proceedings - The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2008
T2 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2008
Y2 - 1 July 2008 through 5 July 2008
ER -