Online Language Teaching: Crises and Creativities

The book series “Developing Online Language Pedagogies” covers online teaching and learning in a way that makes it relevant to practitioners and researchers. The first volume, “Online Language Teaching: Crises and Creativities,” exemplifies this approach by collecting creative and altruistic responses of language educators and organisations to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Colleagues from Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Korea, Spain, and the UK present their individual and institutional reactions to the need for rapid staff training in times of lockdown and an emergency move to online language teaching. The volume culminates in a collaborative conclusion where all the authors jointly reflect on exceptional circumstances and how the crisis can give rise to creative solutions.

Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction
Ursula Stickler and Martina Emke

Chapter 2: Teacher training in times of Covid-19
Pauline Ernest & Sarah Heiser

Chapter 3: Creating presence in remote learning: Moving a participatory
f2f workshop concept online
Aline Germain-Rutherford, Banafsheh Karamifar, & Tomáš Klinka

Chapter 4: Webinars as a rapid response for training language teachers to teach
online in 2020
Jackie Robbins & Joseph Hopkins

Chapter 5: “Moving your language teaching online” Toolkit: Teachers’ early
reflections on their experience and skills
Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský, Hélène Pulker, & Elodie Vialleton

Chapter 6: Transitioning to online teaching: Language teacher wellbeing
during the Covid-19 crisis
Sun Shin

Chapter 7: Microblending as a response to Covid-19
David Bish

Chapter 8: Collaborative conclusion
Ursula Stickler and Martina Emke and all authors

Index