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Email tandem learning and the communicative curriculum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Jane Woodin
Jane Woodin
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University of Sheffield
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This article describes an email project between undergraduate non-specialist learners of Spanish and English in England and Spain. Students took part in a discussion forum and worked with a tandem partner exchanging information, ideas and corrections of each other's language. The project revealed a range of experiences and a case study of one particularly successful participant is presented. The contribution of email tandem learning to CALL within the communicative curriculum is also discussed. It is proposed that such learning plays a different role from classroom language learning, providing a bridge between the classroom and the natural language setting.

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Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , May 1997 , pp. 22 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1997

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