PYRAMID OF SKILLS

theenglishteacher on July 11th, 2008

Online teaching skills

Online teachers need different skills than those normally employed by tutors trained to teach languages in a face-to-face classroom and they also require different skills compared to online teachers of other subjects. Research shows that the medium influences the form of communication and interaction. The asynchronicity of communication in written conferencing and the lack of non-verbal clues in audio-conferencing are examples of new challenges for online language tutors.

From the most basic to the most advanced, the skills that online language tutors require can be presented in a “pyramid of skills”