Comments on: If You Can’t Go to Russia, Russia Will Come to You – Direct Communication with Native Speakers: Oral and Written Practicum Projects https://fltmag.com/oral-written-telecollaboration/ IALLT's free language technology magazine Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:39:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Julia Katsnelson https://fltmag.com/oral-written-telecollaboration/#comment-423848 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:37:56 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=8415#comment-423848 In reply to Edo Forsythe.

Dear Edo Forsythe,

Thank you so much for your comment and suggestion regarding 8-week collaboration sessions.
I completely agree that we should take advantage of the technology we have to bring our learners together.
Best of luck with all your current and future projects.

]]> By: Edo Forsythe https://fltmag.com/oral-written-telecollaboration/#comment-414095 Wed, 22 May 2024 22:24:43 +0000 https://fltmag.com/?p=8415#comment-414095 This is an excellent overview of online intercultural collaborations and provides good tips for how one can begin to add such a project to your language classroom. I’ve been doing online collaborations for years and they are a wonderful way to expose students to foreign cultures and languages. For people interested in EFL-based collaboration, check out the IVEProject.com program that runs twice per year for 8-week sessions. It’s free and well organized and gives English learners around the world a chance to interact in English with other learners.

Let’s keep using technology to bring our language learners together with other speakers if their target language!!!

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