This book presents a practical and easy-to-follow guide to develop and deliver an online language course successfully. It provides language teachers across the globe with useful insights and strategies to effectively teach language online. It offers suggestions on designing, developing, delivering, and improving online courses, and provides ideas on engaging and motivating students by making learning relevant to them. The book focuses on the importance of collaborative and cooperative learning and empathy in improving students' learning experience online. While taking the reader through the essential steps of course development and delivery, the text also shares the personal experiences that have helped the author develop some of her most successful teaching techniques for online courses.
Carmela Bernadetta Scala received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York. Her research focuses on second language acquisition, online teaching, Baroque literature, and fairytales. She is the Director of the Italian Language Program at Rutgers University, USA, where she is also Director of the Study Abroad Program. She is the founder and Chief Editor of Language Teaching and Technology, and is the recipient of an entrepreneurial grant to develop a professional development workshop entirely online for Italian teachers. She also won the prestigious Ernest E. McMahon Class of 1930 Award from Rutgers University for the academic year 2019-2020. Her publications include "How to Foster Equality in The Language Classroom" in the volume Rhetoric and Sociolinguistics in Times of Global Crisis.
