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Employing the Gitbook Platform in Creating Interactive Online Coursebooks for Profession Oriented ELT

Authors
Marina Chashko1, *
1National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), 10100, Moscow, Russia
*Corresponding author. Email: mchashko@hse.ru
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Marina Chashko
Available Online 18 May 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_34How to use a DOI?
Keywords
coursebook design; profession-oriented ELT; online learning
Abstract

The aim of the report is to share the experience of designing the coursebook “English through History Projects [The interactive online version of the “English through History Projects” coursebook is available at the GitBook platform: https://english-historyprojects.gitbook.io/english-through-history-projects/intro/english-through-history-projects..]” and its interactive online version that are a product of the university’s interdisciplinary team project, managed by the School of Foreign Languages NRU HSE, Moscow, Russia, in 2020–2021. The profession oriented coursebook for learning English is designed for university BA students (B1 + level) whose major or interest lies in history both as an academic discipline and a professional field. The coursebook introduces project-based framework that provides a variety of tasks and activities granting students’ an opportunity to learn how to use English as a tool for solving profession oriented project-based tasks. The article presents methodological aspects and survey results that shaped the conceptual framework of the coursebook. It compares several online services, used in ELT, focusing primarily on the GitBook platform that was chosen for designing the interactive online version of the coursebook. The GitBook platform makes the coursebook an interactive, user friendly and globally available online tool, that provides numerous benefits to learners and educators worldwide.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
18 May 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_34
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_34How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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