{"id":27243,"date":"2021-07-13T20:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-elam-site.pantheonsite.io\/?p=27243"},"modified":"2022-04-21T03:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T03:33:48","slug":"keeping-language-learners-engaged-in-digital-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elam.ca\/en\/language-courses\/keeping-language-learners-engaged-in-digital-times","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Language Learners Engaged in Digital Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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<\/div>\nCambridge defines engagement as \u2018\u2019 the process of encouraging people to be interested in the work of an organization, course, marketing strategy, etc.\u2019\u2019\n\n\"\"\n\nEngagement can be described as a measure of a student’s participation in the learning process in the context of education. This covers how they connect with the teacher and their classmates.\u00a0In short, the level of student engagement is a solid indicator of the likelihood of a successful learning experience.<\/span>\n\nAt ELAM<\/a>, we can measure engagement via our LMS (Learning Management System) LearnCube. They tackle this with these four steps<\/a>:\n\n \n
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  1. Positivity <\/b>\u2013 Ramping up their energy like greeting your student with a great big warm welcome, being friendly as the relationship is the conduit for learning.<\/li>\n \t
  2. Personalization<\/b> \u2013 making the content all about them and geared to what they are doing at work (i.e., an email, a presentation, preparing for an important discussion, etc.).<\/li>\n \t
  3. Pitch and Pace<\/b> \u2013 you must constantly adjust the pitch and pace to ensure that students learn in an optimal classroom. Some learn quickly, and others need more time, so use some activities like pair work and put the stronger students together and the lower-level students together and create breakout rooms.<\/li>\n \t
  4. Partnership <\/b>\u2013 get into the habit of teaching students to reflect on their learning. Teach the students to be their own tutors through analysis of what they need to learn more efficiently. For example: how do they organize their new vocabulary, what they do with new grammar structures learned, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSome students in a virtual classroom are ready to contribute but are scared to talk. It can be challenging to engage students in discussions who are reluctant to lend their voices, whether they are introverted, think for a long time before contributing, or have a bad day.\n\nMany trainers have told us that encouraging students to participate has become more challenging during remote learning. Digital platforms can exacerbate communication hurdles by making it difficult to determine when to speak, for example, or to understand small but crucial aspects of discourse, such as a person’s body language and facial expressions.\n

    Here are the strategies we found by scouring the web:<\/h2>\n\"\"\n

    The Synchronous Class<\/h3>\nSome teachers stated they converted traditional classroom discussion tactics to live video chats for synchronous learning, while others found that digital tools helped enhance classroom involvement.\n