Addressed to new and experienced professional language educators, the book focuses on 'instructional conversations' between teachers and students in online environments for language teaching.
Material is written in non-technical language, with b&w screenshots on every page from real language-learning web sites. Examples of best practices are given in four chapters devoted to
teaching in written and oral asynchronous and synchronous environments. Each of these chapters presents material on calling attention to forms and lexis, corralling and saturating, using
linguistic traps, modeling, and providing explicit and implicit feedback. Learning features of the book include chapter objectives, overviews, activities, summaries, and a glossary. Meskill
teaches educational theory and practice at the University of Albany-State University of New York. Anthony directs the International Language Laboratory at Hudson Valley Community College.
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