“How to ‘Grammar’ online” presented by Radmila Popvic

An IATEFL recorded webinar presented by Radmila Popovic (recorded March 2021)

In this webinar, the presenter shows different ways of building on the concept of ‘grammaring’ (teaching grammar as “a skill or dynamic process, not a static area of knowledge”, Larsen-Freeman 2003) to create engaging synchronous and asynchronous grammar tasks.  The presenter leads attendees through the following steps:

• identifying specific learning challenges,
• selecting possible synchronous and asynchronous instruction options to address these challenges,
• identifying strengths and limitations of these options, and
• exploring ways of structuring effective grammar instruction in synchronous and asynchronous modes.

At the end of the webinar, the presenter shares a list of generic grammar activities that can be easily adapted and used in different virtual and blended classroom settings.

The Presenter:

Radmila Popvic has been active in the field of ELT for more than twenty five years as a teacher, teacher trainer, university lecturer and consultant. Before moving to Washington DC in 2011 to work as an education and research specialist for World Learning, Radmila was Assistant Professor in ELT Methodology and Applied Linguistics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She has worked on several innovative projects ( teacher development at primary & secondary levels, mentoring, curriculum reform in tertiary education) in her native country, Serbia, and in Algeria, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and USA. Her online course “Teaching Grammar Communicatively” is part of the Online Professional English Network (OPEN) Program.  Radmil has professional and research interests in teacher education, E-learning and teaching, second language acquisition, teaching English to young learners, and critical pedagogy.

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