Oral Communicative Tasks in Online Language Teaching is a fully online course designed for experienced university-level language instructors (e.g. instructors who have developed and taught an online course at least once, or have participated in our Introduction to Online Language Teaching). During the four weeks, participants will:

• Identify best practices for how to execute both synchronous and asynchronous oral communicative presentational and interpersonal language tasks
• Develop scaffolded, incremental task progressions and assessments in order fully meet course language objectives
• Develop a plan for connecting with the Target Language Community online

The online nature of the course 一 and the combination of both asynchronous and synchronous components 一 exposes participants to all of the affordances and constraints of an online environment for oral communicative tasks in language teaching and learning. 

How can the development of speaking skills be promoted in a synchronous or asynchronous online environment? What should our expectations for proficiency outcomes be? Participants will review and engage with sample oral communicative tasks, provide suggestions for improvements, and will create tasks to meet selected learning objectives in the presentational and interpersonal mode of communication.  Participants will receive feedback from the instructor and, by the end of the course, will have developed a principled plan for meeting and assessing oral proficiency learning objectives in rigorous fashion.