Making Connections: A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges

✍ Scribed by John Corbett; Hugo Dart; Bruno Lima

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 152
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is a practical, down-to-earth guide for language teachers interested in running online intercultural exchanges. It is informed by the latest research on language teaching and intercultural telecollaborations, and situated in the reality of classrooms around the world.

✦ Table of Contents

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

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