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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Teach English Now! Foundational Principles by Arizona State University

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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!

JG

Aug 17, 2018

This is a very useful course as I begin my studies to prepare to teach English abroad. ASU is a recognized university and the price is very reasonable. I look forward to the next course in the series.

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By Heather W

May 6, 2021

The 30 second exit from videos was too lengthy. This was one of the first classes that didn't feel like it dampened my organic abilities but enhanced them. I was a little challenged with the bias toward gifted and high IQ. I would really like to see that change. Very fun class.

By Johan H

Jan 19, 2019

Thank you to the team for insightful learning - and for being such good teachers!

You helped me deal with myths about teaching and specifically language teaching and inspires me to keep going.

Your work is structured, well researched and yo are fund to watch Dr Dixon!

Well done.

By Jeremy W

Mar 29, 2016

A nice introductory course. For people that already have some Teaching or Language Acquisition under their belt, there may be some feeling of review. However, there is also valuable information and fresh angles on how to look at some aspects of language learning and teaching.

By Darnelle R

Jan 31, 2016

I learned some great techniques in this course, one in particular is to the 80/20 rule. Language teachers should allow learners to talk more, and teachers talk less! My only drawback is that I could not see my own responses to Essential Questions or feedback from my peers.

By José I G U

Jan 26, 2016

Great! If this was the first I'm excited to start the others. The content is very instructive, a lot of concepts and useful tools. They should add more content per week, because is too little material to study per week. Thus, sometimes it seens to be boring. But it's ok.

By faridah h

Dec 19, 2015

I liked the course and I found it useful . I will recommend it to my friends. However , some of the instructions are not clear. I understood that I have time to catch up till Dec 21st. But now, My assignment and editing are not accepted and I want to know what I can do.

By Opraha

Sep 25, 2018

This course presented the material in a very clear and understandable manner. The instructors used a lot of great metaphors and examples to engage learners and clarify the content. Anyone could take this course whether you have teaching experience or not.

By Smriti L

Jul 12, 2020

I enjoyed the course and the way the content was distributed. I did however think some of the MCQs in the quizzes were slightly vague in what they demanded. They were too subjective to be part of a quiz. Other than that, I enjoyed it and learnt a lot.

By Lukas S

Feb 26, 2018

I really liked the course, as it was intuitive, well set-up and good to handle in an every-day-setting. And although I understand that the videos are meant to inspire the students (teachers), sometimes the childlike approach gets a little bit to much.

By Jacque B

Apr 25, 2021

It was pretty decent. I wasn't looking for too much hands on stuff as its a foundation course. I appreciate all the effort put into the course to make it engaging and entertaining, and I really appreciate the summaries at the end of each module.

By 周映慈

Apr 19, 2022

I find this course very practical and supportive. With constant feedback from fellow students, I'm able to understand various points of view regarding course topics, which helps me great deal in contemplating my own understanding and learning.

By Alejandra

Jul 10, 2023

Very attractive and meaningful content, easy to follow and easy to understand. I like it a lot and find it useful. Perhaps the assessing stage can be improved, some tasks lack of formality and in one ocassion I only had a (.) as a comment.

By chayarat s

Oct 17, 2018

This course is such a great example of micro learning. I could learn new things in very simple ways. The content is great, the website is very supportive. I totally recommend this course to anyone who wants to teach.

By Paeva A

Apr 17, 2021

Dr. Shane does an excellent way of explaining the different skills and different ways of teaching. It is easy to understand having both theory and actual techniques that are able to be used in teaching a real class.

By Sarah F S

Feb 15, 2020

Hi dears ,

It was good and informative; I learned a lot from the course.

But I think it would be much better if we had had the review of the lecturers on our assignment at least one time during the course.

Thanks

By ADEMIR G D S

Jan 8, 2017

In the first week the course gave a bonus video called Teacher Talk. This could be gave for each week, a great lecture based on theories and techniques taught during the course, recorded from real world classes.

By Rebecca A

Dec 27, 2020

Lovely introduction to the principles of teaching language. I think a few more options in the peer review scoring would improve feedback for students. You get 10 points for an attempt and a really thorough job.

By Seema H a

Jan 21, 2024

I love the teachers they got me exacted to complete the course and everything was usefull clear and I love how they add lots of examples . They teach us how to teach so OfCourse they that is the best course

By John M

May 4, 2020

Good course and well presented. Mostly fairly common sense and straight forward. Very easy to pass. Could be a little more challenging perhaps but overall a good basic foundational course. Thanks very much.

By Tara J

Jul 24, 2016

Really fun and easy. The course was cleverly presented and I appreciated the emphasis on some of the notables in the field. It wasn't very challenging or it would have been five stars. Nice.

By Rafael d A G

Jan 27, 2020

It was incredible how many things I've learned and improved with this course. From the way I teach English to how to relate to my colleagues, it's undeniable I've learned a lot. Thank you!

By Marianne d H

May 18, 2021

I liked a lot of the video's using very concrete examples and making clear points to think about in teaching English. It is also nice to break down the art of teaching in small chuncks.

By Luis G

Nov 25, 2020

Enlightening! The only reason why I do not rate it 5 stars is because I believe there is always room for improvement, though I may not be the most suitable individual to identify it.

By Chloe B

Aug 11, 2019

The course itself is informative and helpful and I liked the quizzes, the peer graded assignments seem erroneous and it takes a long time for your submissions to be graded by anyone.

By Mas M M

Jun 8, 2020

Some quizzes have glitches and even though i've selected the correct answer, it showed that I was wrong until I have to retake it twice to only use the same answer and get it right.