The students have a real and immediate need to learn the language.
The students are highly engaged.
Playing games, socializing, exploring, and creating are all highly engaging and help learn English online.
The optimal ratio of teacher talk to student talk--the students should do most of the talking.
The students talk far more than their teachers talk.
The other students in a course speak different first languages.
The students must, therefore, speak English to communicate with each other.
New knowledge is associated with new people, new places, and new experiences.
The memory has an easier time recalling highly contextualized information.
Courses focus on communication, not perfect pronunciation.
Perfect grammar is not overly stressed.
Information is presented in a variety of ways to appeal to all of the eight types of intelligence identified by Howard Gardner:
Learning is carefully spaced and repetitive.
Students have some control over what they are learning.
For example, they are allowed to choose their topics, projects, locations, etc.
Teachers are highly qualified.
Unfortunately, many online education platforms do not require their "teachers" to have any teaching credentials. They simply require these "teachers" be native speakers of English.
Teachers are paid appropriately.
You can’t expect highly educated and experienced teachers to design and teach an hour-long class for $10.00.
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