What is it about?
This short book introduces languages teachers to the practicalities, challenges, pitfalls and joys of setting up online exchanges in which language learners across dfferent localities and cultures can communicate online and find out more about each other. The book is written by three language educators who have over 25 years of developing online exchanges, and who share the lessons they have learned from their various experiences. One of the authors completed his doctoral thesis on the topic of online exchanges, and the book also gives guidance to those readers who might wish to use their own experience as the basis for a Masters or PhD degree.
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Why is it important?
Most books on online language exchanges so far are written from the perspective of educational theory, or illustrate activities that can be used in online exchanges. This book is innovative in that it focuses on practical experience, the do's and dont's of setting up an online exchange. It is written in accessible language, focuses on the practical, and has lots of illustrations.
Perspectives
This book was an opportunity to work with two friends who have a tremendous enthusiasm for online exchanges and decades of hard-won experience with them; our mutual goal was to produce a book that helped readers benefit from that experience and avoid some of the obvious traps that we ourselves have fallen into in the past.
Professor John Corbett
Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
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This page is a summary of: Making Connections, November 2023, Channel View Publications, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.21832/9781800412668.
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