ERIC Number: ED472799
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 213
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ISBN: ISBN-0-939791-93-5
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Distance-Learning Programs. Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series.
Henrichsen, Lynn E., Ed.
The 14 cases in this book show how distance learning takes a variety of forms in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). The 15 chapters include the following: (1) "Beyond Adding Telecommunications to a Traditional Course: Insights into Human and Instructional Factors Affecting Distance Learning in TESOL" (Lynn E. Hendrichsen); (2) "Technology with a Human Touch: Reaching ESL Students in Their Own Communities through Interactive Television" (Janet L. Eyring); (3) "Closing the Distance in Adult ESL: Two Approaches to Video-Based Learning" (Sylvia Ramirez and K. Lynn Savage); (4) "`Show the Baby,' the Wave, and 1,000 Thanks: Three Reasons to Teach via Satellite Television and the Internet" (Christine Uber Grosse); (5) "Make it a Conference Call: An English Conversation Course by Telephone in South Korea" (Robert J. Dickey); (6) "Using the World Wide Web as a Resource for Models and Interaction in a Writing Course" (Janet Raskin); (7) "Teaching Tomorrow's Class Today: English by Telephone and Computer from Hawaii to Tonga" (Brent A. Green, Kory J. Collier, and Normal Evans); (8) "An Academic Writing Course in Cyberspace" (David Catterick); (9) "Making Distance Learning Dynamic: The Evolution of the TESOL Web-Based Teacher Education Program" (Joyce W. Nutta); (10) "Expanding Horizons: Delivering Professional Teacher Development via Satellite Technology and E-Mail in Israel" (Yael Bejarano, Esther-Klein-Wohl, and Lily Vered); (11) "Teacher Education at a Distance in Canada and Thailand: How Two Cases Measure Up to Quality Distance Education Indicators" (Ruth Epstein); (12) "The Pedagogy and Technology of Distance Learning for Teacher Education: The Evolution of Instructional Processes and Products" (C. Ray Graham, Annela Teemant, Melanie Harris, and Ramona M. Cutri); (13) "Expanding the Horizon of the TESOL Practicum via Distance Learning" (Michael Janopoulos); (14) "Practice What We Preach: Optimal Learning Conditions for Web-Based Teacher Education" (Joy Egbert and Chin-chi Chao); and (15) "Avoiding the Pitfalls of Test Writing in a Distance-Learning Situation: Our Experience at United Arab Emirates University" (Lisa Barlow and Christine Canning-Wilson). (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education.) (Contains 117 references.) (SM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Electronic Mail, English (Second Language), Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Interactive Television, Internet, Language Teachers, Online Courses, Practicums, Preservice Teacher Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Telecourses, Telephone Instruction, Test Construction, Videotape Recordings, Writing Instruction
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., 700 South Washington Street, Suite 200, Alexandria, VA 22314. Tel: 703-836-0774; Fax: 703-836-6447; e-mail: tesol@tesol.org; Web site: http://www.tesol.org/.
Publication Type: Collected Works - General
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., Alexandria, VA.
Identifiers - Location: Canada; Hawaii; Israel; South Korea; Thailand; Tonga; United Arab Emirates
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