JenniferESL Presentation

Teacher’s nationality, accent:

Jennifer Lebedev grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Target group:

Jennifer makes videos for everyone: basic, intermediate and advanced level learners as well. She also has a series of videos aimed at improving the vocabulary of professionals. Other than that, she created a playlist for ESL teachers, in which she gives guidelines, how to make good instructional videos.

Teaching methods:

In the basic level grammar lesson series there are transcripts and Jennifer speaks very slowly, so that pupils can easily understand her.
In the intermediate category you can find pronunciation practising videos, the word of the day series, vocabulary and grammar learning, or even the slang-teaching videos can fall into this category. All these videos include transcript as well; however, the pace of Jennifer’s speech feels more natural.
Advanced learner’s and professional’s videos are not subtitled, the speech is natural, Jennifer only uses PowerPoint slides to illustrate what she is talking about.
The use of slides is peculiar to each and every category.

Instructional videos:

The most interesting thing about Jennifer is that she does not only provide videos for learners, but also for teachers of English. She encourages teachers to create their own instructional videos and gives guidelines as how to do it.
The instructional videos obviously come without transcript. They use text slides to illustrate speech and to show the most important ideas in writing. She also gives examples from her earlier videos to illustrate a given tip; e.g. Classroom presence video: Dress code (3:07-4:14)



Popularity:

68,469 subscribers, 3,337,261 viewers of channel, 24,435,045 views of uploads
Jennifer is relatively popular, considering the number of views of her channel and uploaded videos.