This volume provides an introduction to online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging language learners in collaborative project work with partners from other cultures through the use of online communication technology. The chapters look at how online collaboration can be successfully integrated into the foreign language classroom and how it can contribute to the development of students' intercultural communicative competence.

How to Teach English with Technology by Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly offers a clear, comprehensive, confidence-building introduction to the use of technology in the language classroom.

The book includes:
• a CD-ROM with video tutorials about how to use Webquests, Skype, Blogger, RSS, Second Life etc.
• information on how to set up internet-based project work
• instructions on how to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts etc.
• a guide to producing your own electronic materials

One of the most effective ways to implement the research-based instructional strategies from Classroom Instruction That Works is to use them with educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia, data collection tools, communication software, and the Internet. This book shows you how and gives you hundreds of lesson-planning ideas and strategies for every grade level and subject. Discover new educational tools that support research-based instruction, and learn ways to use technologies you already know to: [+/-]

Communication technology has become decisive in sociocultural transformations taking place worldwide. This book attempts to take full account of technological developments in contemporary cultural activity, including the nuances and subtleties of computer-mediated communication, but it considers the more directly experienced and 'non-rational' sides of life too. [+/-]

This book has been written for people whose first language is not English, and who use or are going to use computers and other information technology in an English-speaking environment. It covers the language needed to use information technology equipment, work with computer programs, discuss problems and plan projects.

One of the most effective ways to implement the research-based instructional strategies from Classroom Instruction That Works is to use them with educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia, data collection tools, communication software, and the Internet. This book shows you how and gives you hundreds of lesson-planning ideas and strategies for every grade level and subject. Discover new educational tools that support research-based instruction, and learn ways to use technologies you already know to: [+/-]

Communication technology has become decisive in sociocultural transformations taking place worldwide. This book attempts to take full account of technological developments in contemporary cultural activity, including the nuances and subtleties of computer-mediated communication, but it considers the more directly experienced and 'non-rational' sides of life too. [+/-]