Below are links to example course materials for three, ten-week online English for Specific Purposes courses that I created, piloted, and ran at Kettering University. Although these materials and courses were developed as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic forcing our program to move entirely online. They were meticulously planned and revised based on input from a wide range of stakeholders: participants in the class, Kettering student workers and volunteers, and colleagues working in these fields. Feel free to explore their content by clicking on the links below.
English for Automotive Trends (CEFR B2, Upper Intermediate) - Click here for course materials.
English for Co-ops and Internships (CEFR B2, Upper Intermediate) - Click here for course materials.
English for Study Abroad (CEFR B2, Upper Intermediate) - Click here for course materials.
English for Co-ops and Internships (CEFR B2, Upper Intermediate) - Click here for course materials.
English for Study Abroad (CEFR B2, Upper Intermediate) - Click here for course materials.
To learn more about these courses (how they worked and what our students said about them), please see kettering.edu/ESL-ShortPrograms.
Finally, if you are developing your own online language courses, an excellent article to mull over is Gacs, A., Goertler, S., & Spasova, S. (2020). Planned online language education versus crisis-prompted online language teaching: Lessons for the future. Foreign Language Annals, (May), 380–392. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12460.pdf
Finally, if you are developing your own online language courses, an excellent article to mull over is Gacs, A., Goertler, S., & Spasova, S. (2020). Planned online language education versus crisis-prompted online language teaching: Lessons for the future. Foreign Language Annals, (May), 380–392. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12460.pdf