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Through a series of engaging metaphors and stories, prospective and current EFL/ESL teachers will identify, summarize, and evaluate 7 basic language learning paradigms. Learners will be presented information on such foundational principles as motivation, risk taking, two different modes of learning, and balancing the teacher profession. Learners are also given an understanding of basic techniques founded on those principles, such as teacher talk, looking “ridiculous” in order to lower the affective filter, and networking. With these foundational principles in mind, ESL/EFL teachers will scrutinize common assumptions about language learning by comparing how they stack up to research-based core principles....
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VM

Apr 9, 2020

Great course! Nice content and great presentation of the material. Useful not only for ESL teachers, but for all language teachers and even for teachers in general. Thank you for creating this course!

MT

Mar 12, 2021

I had fun enrolling on this course and it's very insightful. And Keep the great work, Dr Shane Dixon. I can't wait to complete the rest of the courses so that I get my professional certificate. Thanks

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By MUSTAFA

Jan 4, 2016

Thanks for the great opportunity that you bring to us! I have learned a lot of things from this course as a language teacher.

By Habib B

Oct 29, 2023

An excellent course. Introduces many new concepts and points of view. It is well-guided too and doesn't get you lost at all.

By Shila T

Sep 14, 2022

It was a very useful course, and I am very grateful to the wonderful professors of this course at the University of Arizona.

By Anforova O

Jul 27, 2022

Everything is clear, structured and interesting. It encourages you to get involved and look at things from different angles.

By Belmokhtar C

May 8, 2022

Great Course for people who would like to teach English or even English Teachers who like to improve their ways of teaching!

By 沈银花

Dec 17, 2021

Like the way teachers from Arizona State University. And hope I can bring my fellow students the happy learning experice. ;)

By Gilbert N

Aug 3, 2021

I very like this course also the speakers. From this course I learned many techniques and new metaphors. Thank you very much

By Dr. R M

Mar 16, 2021

Fantastic course and the course tutors were just awesome, they made the course, literally a piece of cake :) Thanks so much.

By Natavan G

Aug 2, 2020

I have learned a lot through this course and enjoyed the way of explaining different approaches and theories about teaching!

By Hicham M

Feb 20, 2019

I've learnt a lot from this valuable course. Thank your ASU and Coursera from making learning easier and accessable for us.

By Mervin J Z S

Oct 31, 2017

I learned a lot from this course. This is not only applicable to teaching English but teaching in general.

Thank you so much!

By Kristine V

Jul 25, 2016

This online course is very helpful especially for those who do not have enough time to go to a traditional class like me. :D

By teaching b

Feb 13, 2016

Excellent course.It taught me so many important things.Dr Shane Dixon is so inspirational!I would definetely recomment it .

By Jorge L P V

Feb 2, 2016

Es un excelente curso, muy intuitivo, aprendes mucho y tiene la adición de ser muy divertido. Se los recomiendo ampliamente.

By Satya d C c M

Nov 9, 2015

Love it! I have taken several MOOCs and this is definitelly in my top 5! The videos are great! and Dr. Shane Dixon is the be

By ayşe i d

May 8, 2023

this course help for improving teaching skills. it gains to you get developed teaching techniques. thanks Asu and Coursera!

By Olena S

Dec 7, 2022

Very interesting and informative course!!!

I like the teachers, the videos with tasks and funny stories!! Thank you so much!

By Shenna M

Nov 2, 2020

An eye opening learning to help become a better language learner and also give importance to the teacher by using metaphors

By Gehad M

Jul 9, 2020

This course is very helpful. It helps you not only to teach a language, but also how to learn a language. Thanks Dr. Shane!

By Atilla Y G

Jun 6, 2020

very helpful, very detailed, very well taught [I think I can also use the term 'played' :-)]

Special thanks for Dr Shane...

By Vedant T

May 27, 2020

Great instructors, great material, great experience. Would highly recommend this to anyone looking for TESOL certification!

By Roberto R

May 7, 2020

It is incredible that even with many years of experience we can be so enlightened by a course and its teachers. Wonderful.

By Shargiyya S

Feb 21, 2020

Thank you for the course. It was really nice journey to gain new teaching skills and widen my view on my teaching attitude.

By Mohamed S

Dec 31, 2019

Very Useful and organized Content, I Really enjoyed this learning Journey Thank s to all the instructors and all the peers.

By Hannah H

Feb 11, 2017

Easy, accessible program. Very happy I signed up for this course, and I am looking forward to the next class in the series.