http://esl.fis.edu/teachers/support/folse.htm
This webpage is a summary of the above-mentioned book by Keith Folse, currently Associate Professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida. The core of the book is a discussion of eight myths about learning and teaching vocabulary:
The eight myths are:
In learning another language, vocabulary is not as important as grammar or other areas.
Using word lists to learn L2 vocabulary is unproductive.
Presenting new vocabulary in semantic sets facilitates learning.
The use of translations to learn new vocabulary should be discouraged.
Guessing words from context is an excellent strategy for learning L2 vocabulary.
The best vocabulary learners make use of one or two really specific vocabulary learning strategies.
The best dictionary for L2 learners is a monolingual dictionary.
Teachers, textbooks, and curricula cover L2 vocabulary adequately.
Keith Folse - Teaching Language Classes Online: A Learner’s Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SC8Ui9J3SM
Plenary at the 2021 Korea TESOL International Conference.
Many teachers used to doubt that a language class could be taught effectively online. However, a worldwide pandemic has forced language instruction to go online in many parts of the world and we have all seen how some areas of language teaching have changed now. Because of COVID-19, both experienced online teachers and novice online teachers have now had almost a year of real experience teaching English and other languages online. When this is over or when a majority of learners and teachers can go back to a somewhat normal teaching situation again, how might instruction be different? I am a very experienced language teacher (40 years) and language learner (7 languages). In the past six months, I have also gained another type of experience: I have been an online language learner in an asynchronous university German course. In this talk, I will offer some interesting and sometimes unexpected insights I gained about online language instruction based on my perspective as a real learner in a real language course that was completely online.
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