I've recently been researching ways to conduct language exchange either in person or over the internet. A language exchange is when two people or more people are proficient in two different languages that the other person wants to learn. So the partners meet as many times as agreed upon and speak half the time in one language and the other half of the time in the other language. It is a way for students to barter language learning opportunities they can provide one another with.
At the language symposium 2010, we learned about how to use a program called edmodo to allow two classrooms in different parts of the world correct each others work. One classroom was in Argentina and the other classroom was in the United States.
There are also several free websites that students can go to to search for a language partner.
What did you think of Edmodo? Was it a useful program?
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