Making Connections
eBook - ePub

Making Connections

A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making Connections

A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges

About this book

Online collaboration can be a powerful means of encouraging language learners to make connections between their local community and people from other cultural backgrounds. In doing so, learners develop their language skills while exploring different attitudes, values and beliefs. The authors of this book draw on 20 years of participation in numerous online intercultural exchanges to offer teachers a down-to-earth guide to finding partners, choosing a platform and designing online exchanges. They share their experience of working with learners to ensure that deep intercultural learning occurs alongside language development. This book offers strategies for mediating conflict with partners and participants, and guidance on the assessment of linguistic and intercultural competences. It is a practical resource for language teachers, informed by the latest research on language teaching and intercultural telecollaborations and situated in the reality of classrooms around the world.

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Yes, you can access Making Connections by John Corbett,Hugo Dart,Bruno Ferreira de Lima,Bruno de Lima in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Computer Science General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introducing Online Intercultural Exchanges
  9. 2 Finding Partners
  10. 3 Choosing an Appropriate Platform
  11. 4 Agreeing Goals
  12. 5 Ethics, Netiquette and Security
  13. 6 Initiating Online Discussions: Breaking the Ice
  14. 7 Designing Online Intercultural Tasks
  15. 8 Negotiating Identity and Managing Rapport
  16. 9 The Instructor’s Roles: To Intervene or Not?
  17. 10 Coping with Problems
  18. 11 Organising a Videoconference
  19. 12 Learners’ Language as Classroom Data
  20. 13 Assessing Participants’ Performance
  21. 14 Evaluating an Online Intercultural Exchange
  22. 15 Developing an Action Research Project
  23. Afterword
  24. References
  25. Index