Making Connections

John Corbett is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at BNU-HKBU United International College, China. He is the author of An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (2nd edition, Multilingual Matters, 2022).  Hugo Dart is an English Language Teacher and Teacher Trainer at Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Bruno Lima is an English Language Teacher and International Mobility Officer at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introducing Online Intercultural ExchangesChapter 2. Finding PartnersChapter 3. Choosing an Appropriate PlatformChapter 4. Agreeing GoalsChapter 5. Ethics, Netiquette and SecurityChapter 6. Initiating Online Discussions: Breaking the IceChapter 7. Designing Online Intercultural TasksChapter 8. Negotiating Identity and Managing RapportChapter 9. The Instructor’s Roles: To Intervene or Not? Chapter 10. Coping with ProblemsChapter 11. Organising a VideoconferenceChapter 12. Learners’ Language as Classroom DataChapter 13. Assessing Participants’ PerformanceChapter 14. Evaluating an Online Intercultural ExchangeChapter 15. Developing an Action Research ProjectAfterwordReferencesIndex

Written in an accessible and unpretentious style, this volume offers educators a practical, step-by-step guide to setting up and running an online intercultural exchange project with their students. The book is full of real examples and personal anecdotes from the authors' own experiences and it will go a long way to answering many of the questions that teachers have when they come to this activity for the first time.