Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introducing Online Intercultural Exchanges
Chapter 2. Finding Partners
Chapter 3. Choosing an Appropriate Platform
Chapter 4. Agreeing Goals
Chapter 5. Ethics, Netiquette and Security
Chapter 6. Initiating Online Discussions: Breaking the Ice
Chapter 7. Designing Online Intercultural Tasks
Chapter 8. Negotiating Identity and Managing Rapport
Chapter 9. The Instructor's Roles: To Intervene or Not?
Chapter 10. Coping with Problems
Chapter 11. Organising a Videoconference
Chapter 12. Learners' Language as Classroom Data
Chapter 13. Assessing Participants' Performance
Chapter 14. Evaluating an Online Intercultural Exchange
Chapter 15. Developing an Action Research Project
Afterword
References
Index
