Resources for the Use of Email in Language Learning


Finding keypals:

ESL Cafe's ESL E-mail Connection for students: http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/student.html
E-mail Pen-Pal Opportunities for Students at Linguistic Funland:
http://www.linguistic-funland.com/addapal.html
Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections: http://www.iecc.org/

Advice:

"Using E-mail with Foreign Language Learners" (by Margaret Gonglewski, Christine Meloni, and Jocelyne Brant): http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr72.htm#twas

"Report on a Penpal Project, and Tips for Penpal-Project Success" (by Vera Mello): http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Mello-Penpal.html

E-Mail Keypals for Language Fluency (by Tom Robb): http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/keypals.html

Class and Tandem Projects:

HUT Internet Writing Project: http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/Project
International E-Tandem Network: http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex-en.html

A Guide to Language Learning in Tandem via the Internet (10 languages): http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/brochure.html

Advice:

"Ups and Downs: Creating Collaborative and Interactive Language Learning Projects at Helsinki University of Technology " -- article by Ruth Vilmi: http://www.insa-lyon.fr/Departements/CDRL/ups.html
Basics of Electronic Writing (by Joe Essid): http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/ewriting.html

Activities:

E-mail Activities in the ESL Writing Class (by Ron Belisle): http://iteslj.org/Articles/Belisle-Email.html

 

Resource for teachers: NETEACH-L: http://www.ilc.cuhk.edu.hk/english/neteach/main.html

 


Robert Henderson Language Media Center, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/workshops/techspring03/email.html
Last revised: February 23, 2003