Making Connections: A Practical Guide to Online Intercultural Exchanges - Softcover

Corbett, John; Dart, Hugo; Lima, Bruno

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800412649 ISBN 13: 9781800412644

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2023

Synopsis

Online collaboration can be a powerful means of encouraging language learners to make connections between their local community and people from other cultural backgrounds, and to develop their language skills while exploring different attitudes, values and beliefs. This book draws on 20 years of participation in numerous online intercultural exchanges to offer teachers a guide to finding partners, choosing a platform, preparing learners and ensuring deep intercultural learning occurs alongside language development. The authors offer realistic strategies for mediating conflict with partners and participants, and guidance on the assessment of linguistic and intercultural competences. The book is a practical, down-to-earth 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.

About this title

About the Author

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 (2^nd edition Multilingual Matters, 2022).  

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

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800412649
• ISBN 13: 9781800412644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152