Taking the Upper Hand Online: Focusing on Speaking, Pronunciation and Accuracy

With learning-centered instruction in vogue, instructors facilitate and share information with their students to find solutions to various academic issues. It has become obligatory for teachers as well as learners to understand learner's autonomy to fit in online learning environments. The instructors have to adapt to a range of interactive methodologies and focus on the instructional design of their courses. 

With this backdrop, the presenter Rob Howard on 21.4. 2021 at UTAS-Ibri shared his experiences through a webinar that centered on the advantage of being online is working on fine-tuning learners' abilities. He spoke at length on usingthe online teaching mode to break fossilized habits in students' speaking, pronunciation, and accuracy by improving and building students' confidence utilizing methods that make working online a more effective and productive tool.

Rob concluded the session with a hopeful note that a prudent approach to using online tools would enhance the quality, quantity, and patterns of communication students practice during learninig language skills.

Rob Howard is an Owner of Online Language Center and managing partner of Business Language Training Institute. Joint Coordinator for the IATEFL BESIG( Business English Special Group), Online and Video Coordinator for the Visual Arts Circle, has authored and co-authored several books for EFL, co-founder of the Independent Authors & Publishers.