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MOOCs and Cross-Cultural English Training for Teachers in Thailand with Dr. Pam Barger

2024/11/18
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Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU

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Dr. Kanjana Thepboriruk sits down with Dr. Pam Barger and Dr. James Cohen to talk about teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and massive open online courses (MOOCs) in Thailand. They discuss how MOOCs are capable of disrupting the way English is taught while providing universally accessible methods of language learning. Dr. Barger is a Thai American scholar and a professor of English language teaching at Wheaton College. She specializes in Comparative International Education.