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Making Connections John Corbett

Making Connections By John Corbett

Making Connections by John Corbett


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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.

Making Connections Summary

Making Connections: A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges by John Corbett

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.

Making Connections Reviews

Written in an accessible and unpretentious style, this volume offers educators a practical, step-by-step guide to setting up and running an online intercultural exchange project with their students. The book is full of real examples and personal anecdotes from the authors' own experiences and it will go a long way to answering many of the questions that teachers have when they come to this activity for the first time. * Robert O'Dowd, University of Leon, Spain *
This highly practical and accessible guide provides valuable insights into task design, implementation and assessment in intercultural online exchanges while highlighting how to use emergent tensions for a better understanding of identity dynamics in intercultural dialogue. Suitable for beginners and experienced practitioners, it equips readers with strategies to establish, guide, and evaluate impactful intercultural exchanges in digital contexts. * Melinda Dooly Owenby, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain *

About John Corbett

John Corbett is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at BNU-HKBU United International College, China. He is the author of An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (2nd edition, Multilingual Matters, 2022).

Hugo Dart is an English Language Teacher and Teacher Trainer at Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bruno Lima is an English Language Teacher and International Mobility Officer at the Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Table of 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

Additional information

NGR9781800412644
9781800412644
1800412649
Making Connections: A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges by John Corbett
New
Paperback
Multilingual Matters
2023-11-14
152
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