Online World Language Instruction Training and Assessment
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Online World Language Instruction Training and Assessment
An Ecological Approach
Carmen King Ramírez, Barbara A. Lafford, and James E. Wermers
A new approach to training and evaluating world languages online instructors The rapid growth in online world language programs in the United States coupled with the widespread implementation of virtual teaching in response to COVID-19 have pushed the field to reconceive instruction. Virtual learning creates unique challenges for instructors, who need to ensure that their students have adequate interaction with their peers, their professor, and native speakers of the language. Even with a growing demand for online language courses, there are few tools that evaluate the training and assessment of online language instructors. Related Sites:
Carmen King Ramírez is an associate professor of Spanish and the director of the Online Spanish Program at the University of Arizona. She has published work on CALL and languages for specific purposes, designed and launched numerous online Spanish programs, and hosts the academic podcast series, World Languages 21. She coedited the volume Transferable Skills for the 21st Century: Preparing Students for the Workplace through World Languages for Specific Purposes with Barbara A. Lafford.
Reviews
"When COVID forced language educators to abandon the physical classroom, they had no standards to train them to teach online. The authors have remedied this deficiency by providing an eminently practical and ecologically sound guide to building a CALL training program-preparing teachers to teach language successfully online, and then be fairly evaluated. The appendix provides eleven checklists and rubrics to instruct administrators, supervisors, trainers, and teachers how to meet the online challenge. The language field is indebted to the book's authors both now and well into the future."—Robert J. Blake, Distinguished Professor of Spanish (emeritus) and director of the Davis Language Center UC Davis "Online World Language Instruction Training and Assessment is an excellent, timely guide to online language instruction for instructors and supervisors. It is thoroughly founded in CALL research and takes into account the most recent pandemic-induced changes in online education. The book's focus on equity as well as the consistent message that online education should be developed, researched, and assessed in its own right rather than in comparison to F2F instruction are much appreciated. These foci make this book a must-read for language department chairs."—Senta Goertler, director of the German Basic Language Program, Michigan State University "As many of us have scrambled unprepared to transition from face-to-face to online teaching in haste, this well-researched and practical book provides the 21st century language teacher, teacher trainer, supervisor, and administrator with much-needed focus, guidance, theoretical background, and practical application to ensure online language best-practice instruction and assessment within the realm of critical pedagogy. This book is a timely, indispensable, and transformative contribution to online language education."—Lourdes Sánchez-López, professor of Spanish, University of Alabama at Birmingham Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Challenges of Moving Online 2. CALL Teacher Education for Online Environments 3. Online Language Instructor Training Challenges and Strategies 4. Core Competencies and Skills for Online Language Instructors 5. Online Language Instructor Assessment 6. Instruments for the Assessment of Online Language Instructors 7. Self-Evaluation Practices in Formative Assessment 8. The Mentoring Relationship in Formative Assessment Processes 9. Debriefing and Goal Setting in Instructor Assessment 10. An Ecological Approach to the Normalization of a Critical CTE Appendix A: Checklists for Online Language Instructor Training and Assessment Appendix B: Rubrics for Evaluation of Online Language Instructor Training and Assessment Appendix C: Online Language Instructor Student Evaluation Rubric and Modular Rubric Bibliography Glossary |