IH Toruń ONLINE Teacher Training Day Session 5: “Young Language Learners Online“ - Chris Roland

Chris Roland recorded live at the IH Toruń ONLINE Teacher Training Day conference, Saturday 7th November 2020. Full title: “Structuring Fun for Young Language Learners Online“ ABSTRACT: In this fast-paced session I shall give you a whistle-stop tour of my approach to teaching primary levels online. We shall look at managing noise and chat box clutter, creating events, capturing our students’ imaginations and most importantly anchoring it all to words and sentences in English. There will be examples, screenshots, anecdotes and resources from my own YL online classes. Suitable for new teachers, seasoned veterans and trainers alike. Bio: Chris Roland is a trainer and methodology writer based at ELI, a language academy in Seville. and a tutor on Trinity Certificate and Diploma courses for OxfordTEFL, Barcelona. His first book Understanding Teenagers in the ELT classroom (2018) was nominated for an ELTon award and his second book Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom (2020) has also recently been published by Pavilion. His current areas of work are: helping teachers to adapt to online teaching for YL’s and teens, coping with L1 and student cross-talk, the psychological terrain of a teacher’s working day, task design, the micro-mechanics of going over exercises and the workings of what we call ‘fun’.