{"id":13,"date":"2009-02-04T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T16:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/languages\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-02-12T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:08:58","slug":"language-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/02\/04\/language-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the semester gets under way, we&#8217;ve already had quite a few language exchanges via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a>.\u00a0 Some of the languages have partner classes with whom the students communicate throughout the semester.\u00a0 Others schedule events in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-exchanges.org\">Mixxer<\/a> and thereby invite native speakers of our students&#8217; target language for an exchange via Skype during class time.\u00a0 There are also usually a handful of classes each semester that assign students to find a language partner on their own in the Mixxer and conduct an interview.\u00a0 Usually this interview is then combined with other research to create some sort of project or presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, language exchanges don&#8217;t necessarily have to be limited to Skype.\u00a0 Another possibility is for the students to keep a journal using either a blog or twitter and connect with native speakers in written form.\u00a0 There are sites that encourage these kinds of exchanges as well.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lang-8.com\/\">Lang-8<\/a> is a popular site that lets native speaker suggest corrections in the comment section.\u00a0 The Mixxer gives each user their own wiki where learners can write and then request corrections from native speakers.\u00a0 Another possibility is to have the students in the class form their own community and correct each other.\u00a0 We could host such a community on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dickinson.edu\">Dickinson Blog<\/a> or students could form their own using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ning.com\">Ning<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\">Blogger.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the semester gets under way, we&#8217;ve already had quite a few language exchanges via Skype.\u00a0 Some of the languages have partner classes with whom the students communicate throughout the semester.\u00a0 Others schedule events in the Mixxer and thereby invite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/2009\/02\/04\/language-exchanges\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-language-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}