Understanding Teenage Language Learners Online is a textbook full of practical ideas and advice for teaching English live online to teenagers. It offers a mixture of methodology, practical tips and creative ideas to get teachers started in an online platform, and to support them in creating and delivering dynamic and creative lessons whether they are teaching solely online or doing a combination of online alongside physical classes, i.e. hybrid teaching.
Understanding Teenage Language Learners Online goes much further than simply telling you what to do and how to do it. It also looks at the why. It explains the deeper rationale for decisions we might make as well as exploring the underlying principles and factors that can make or break a lesson. Throughout the book, the goal is to help make lessons motivating and enjoyable for both teacher and teenage learners. The emphasis is on low-tech, low-prep lessons with maximum results.
The author examines how a large number of principles of best practice from face-to-face lessons (as covered in Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom) translate to online teaching. The two books complement each other for those teaching in class and online, but can also each be used on their own.
