Online ESL teaching to Chinese students (in China and elsewhere) has become a trend. It can be fun at the beginning, but after going through some really challenging online classes such as students not participating or students not speaking up, online ESL classes can be really dragging... or even less promising.

However, when we come up with ideas that will make students speak up, our online classes can be really fun and even exciting. Besides, our goal is to help the students improve their English communication skills.

In this 3-part video course, I'm going to share my experience and techniques I use to make my online students speak up and get to understand better their learning needs.

The three-part video course will help you with the following:

Part 1 - Overview of an Engaging and Fun Online ESL Class

What you’ll learn:

• How can we define an engaging and fun online ESL class

• What makes an online ESL class engaging and fun

• Why do we have to make it engaging and fun (pedagogical approach)

• How we can make it fun and engaging

• Overview of PPP (Presentation-Practice-Production)

• Online teaching roadblocks and whiteboard solutions

• Sample online class structure

Part 2 - Giving Effective Roleplaying and Discussion Activity (Separate course)

What you’ll learn:

• What makes our Chinese ESL learners not speak

• Common mistakes Chinese students make when speaking in English

• 6 suggested online speaking activities

• Giving instructions for roleplaying activity with demo

• Giving instruction for conducting a discussion activity with demo

Part 3 - Giving student presentation in an online ESL class (Separate course)

• Why give student presentation

• Getting started with giving student presentation

• What we (online ESL teachers) can do during and after the student presents

• Student presentation guideline with demo

Hopefully, once you’ve gone through these courses you can:

• Come up with better ideas and approaches on how to make your online ESL classes fun and exciting

• Deliver a great learning experience

• Better come up with ways on how to provide an English speaking environment or opportunities for your ESL learners

• Even learn how to design and plan your online ESL classes

Enjoy the video and thank you so much for joining me here!

Credits:

bensound (dot) com (BG music)

Also, big big thanks to my Chinese friend, Shiloh for helping me with the demo classes