My newly-online, temporarily-online ESL classes have been an absolute garbage fire, for predictable and unpredictable reasons. (Spoiler: The absolute cheapest methods of going online may not be the most reliable or the most robust). But today I discovered that my sweet Level 3 students have a WhatsApp group together, where they chat in English outside of class. On purpose. Not for a grade. Any English teacher would feel good hearing that.
I learned this today in our online class, when my students told me how Javid pranked them all by posting a hospital stock photo in the group and telling them that’s why he wasn’t in class yesterday.
Online classes are a trash fire this week, but when it’s good, teaching ESL is all about that cross-cultural friendship.
