Tesol 2.0 Project Description

Tesol 2.0 implements a novel approach to ESL instruction: the integration of media and technology in an ESL context. Tesol 2.0 is taking place as a semester long project at Teachers College Columbia University's Community English Program's Advanced Study ESL class. The course weaves various media such as podcasts, film and video, still images, written text into the class curriculum. The class uses new communicative technologies such as blogs and instant messaging to explore new modes of communication to provide even more arenas of English practice and development. Linguistic goals are determined by the needs of the students. However, we intend to focus on spoken and written production in various contexts.