Language Classroom Content & Pedagogy College & University Education Practice-Oriented Long Workshop
Online Language Pedagogy: The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach
Best practices in online teaching should include the eight steps of the synchronous online flipped learning approach (SOFLA), a distance learning model which most closely replicates actual classroom teaching. SOFLA includes structured, interactive, multimodal activities, both asynchronous and synchronous, that create fertile spaces for teaching and learning online. Participants will learn how to implement each step and will receive digital resources to guide them in using SOFLA.
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Kazuko Saito, Adjunct Lecturer of Japanese Language at City University of New York (CUNY) and World Language Teacher at secondary school in the NY States, has been implemented SOFLA® the Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach in her Japanese language class. She specializes in online language teaching and developed a fully online Japanese language course for Brooklyn College, which she has been teaching since 2017, and founded and led a project of CUNY-wide Collaboration and Innovation for the New Digital Era of Japanese Language Education (CCI-2020).
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Helaine W. Marshall, Professor of Education and Director of Language Education Programs at Long Island University-Hudson, Purchase, NY, USA, has research interests in culturally responsive-sustaining education, nontraditional approaches to grammar, and instructional technology, especially online flipped learning. She developed MALP® - the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm® and SOFLA® the Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach. She publishes with University of Michigan Press.
