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Teaching EFL/ESL Reading

This course explores ways of teaching reading skills in English as Second and Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) using a task-based approach. You will be introduced to the concept of task and the key principles of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and learning. TBLT uses communicative tasks as the key unit for creating language learning activities. You will also examine the role of reading in real-life and in second and foreign language teaching and current thinking about the interface between TBLT and second language reading. You will explore how TBLT and teaching second language reading can be successfully integrated in practice through analysing task-based reading materials. The course culminates in creating task-based materials for teaching reading in your own language teaching contexts. After completing the course, you will be able to: 1. Explain the main components and tenets of a task-based approach to teaching language; 2. Explain the main issues involved in teaching reading; 3. Illustrate connections between TBLT approaches and the teaching of reading; 4. Integrate tasks into your own teaching; 5. Identify reading texts that are suitable for the construction of tasks; and 6. Construct reading tasks and sequences for use in your own classroom.

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Rating 4.6 based on 66 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 6 weeks of study, 4-6 hours/week
Starts Jul 10 (42 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of London, UCL Institute of Education via Coursera
Instructors Dr Amos Paran, Dr Andrea Révész, Dr Myrrh Domingo
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Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Education
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teachers do really master their subject, activities and tips are very useful.

It is conducted in digestible manner and the videos are very useful and easy to follow!The only suggestion I would make is that some of the given instructions for the assignments aren't very clear or worded quite ambiguously.

It is a very useful course to learn about how to make reading a more practical activity inside the classroom.

This course is very useful and practical, which can help me a lot in my class in the future.

Perfect Very interesting, it will be very useful for me and my students.

It is very useful for ESL teachers.

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Gives you fresh approach to teaching Reading.

Good way to expand your knowledge and challenge the traditional strategies for teaching reading.

I learned a lot and I recommend this course to everyone who wants to enrich their knowledge and become a good professional in teaching reading.

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Learned so much from this experience.

My initial intention was to improve my ESP classes, since I work only with reading comprehension, but I've learned so much about using tasks in class that I'm looking forward to start using them with my other students.

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I thought the course was interesting, although there was some discrepancy between what was shown in the interviews and the theory presented.

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Rating 4.6 based on 66 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Effort 6 weeks of study, 4-6 hours/week
Starts Jul 10 (42 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of London, UCL Institute of Education via Coursera
Instructors Dr Amos Paran, Dr Andrea Révész, Dr Myrrh Domingo
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences Education
Tags Social Sciences Education

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