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Intercultural Exchanges And Intimimediacy

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As I have mentioned at the beginning of this section, these intercultural exchanges are not anything new since many years ago pen pan exchanges were carried out, and through them, students exchanged letters with their foreign partners. So, what is the difference between those exchanges and the ones that take place nowadays? The answer to this question is "immediacy". Some years ago, students had to wait for a considerable amount of time to get their partners' answers back, however, nowadays, thanks to the advances in technology, exchanges can even take place in real time, using synchronous communication tools, such as chats or videoconferences (as well as asynchronous ones, as it will be dealt with later) In words of Torres and Vinagre "young …show more content…

- To establish an exchange with a group of students who are living in a country where they need to use the same target language but who are not native speakers. Regarding the activities designed by the teacher, they will all "involve the exchange of information, communication and negotiation of meaning", according to O'Dowd (204) In addition, the types of activities will vary depending on the tools used to carry them out: on the one hand, online exchanges may involve the use of asynchronous tools, such as e-mail, wikis, discussion forums and blogs. In secondary education, this asynchronous communication is more common than the synchronous one since the use of blogs and e-mails makes it possible for students to plan what they are going to write and to analyze and reflect on what they or their partners have written, due to its permanence as opposed to oral speech (O'Dowd 194) This idea is clearly seen in Schwienhorst, who states: "The major advantage of written communication is... the possibility for each learner to preserve the entire communication..." and to have "an enormous sample of his or her own efforts in the target language" (Schwienhorst (1998: 125, in O'Dowd …show more content…

In addition, another reason why asynchronous tools are useful is because they let the teachers have a permanent record of students' learning progress, what is relevant in terms of assessment. Some examples of asynchronous tools could be the following: Google Sites, which is a free app used to create websites, and Blogger, which is used to create blogs. On the other hand, online exchanges may involve the use of synchronous tools, such as chats and videoconferencing, which allow students to establish communication at real time conditions. Since they are not frequently used in secondary education exchanges, I will not focus my attention on

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