Professor Rujie Wang and College of Wooster students studying Chinese had a video chat with faculty and students at Xi’an International Studies University in Xi’an, China. The program used to do this is called Skype. It is a free program which allows you to text message, audio chat and video chat with other Skype users. Below is a video of Prof. Wang and his students using Skype. What might it mean pedagogically to have students able to engage so easily and regularly with native speakers?
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It’s great to see our faculty begin to take advantage of Skype!
If you google for pertinent terms you can find a wealth pedagogical examples—many schools, including Oberlin [http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/05dec/language.html] and quite a few high schools [http://www.tes.co.uk/blogs/blog.aspx?path=/ICT/01%20Joe%20Dale/&post=2305597] —are putting this technology to good use.
How do you find native speakers willing to speak to your class? I teach Spanish at a rural high school.
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