This site contains over 300 phone conversations in colloquial Egyptian, Iraqi, and Levantine Arabic. Included are lesson plans and support materials. Conversation topics cover a wide range of daily life.
Les Conversations Mises à Jour is a collection of authentic conversations in French that targets mostly intermediate and advanced learners of French. Each conversation highlights the shared experience of two native or near-native French speakers and provides both an oral history of that experience and a trove of cultural references.
Create and use interactive educational tutorials. A kind of programming is required to create them. They can be created to simulate a conversation and adapt to the input of the learner.
How might we promote the same interaction among students using Twitter for classroom and learning?
Since Twitter is considered to be a social networking website, one aspect of this study looked at dialogue that transpired between followers to show evidence of collaborative conversations rather than unidirectional sharing of information.
Survey results show that nine out of ten of the respondents were able to give concrete examples of collaboration that occurred with fellow Twitter users.
These examples included ideas such as creating units, sharing of resources, students collaborating on projects between classrooms, exchanging professional materials and readings, writing book chapters, and even co-presenting at conferences.
beyond 140-character messages. That teachers moved discussions to forums that allow for deeper discussion and expansion of ideas is encouraging; Twitter does not seem to be a place to collaborate in depth, but rather to make those initial connections - a "jumping off" point.
how using Twitter has benefited them professionally. Four unique themes emerged from their responses:
Access to resources
Supportive relationships
Increased leadership capacity
Development of a professional vision
practical resources and ideas as a benefit.
opportunities for them to take leadership roles in developing professional development, organizing conferences, publishing, and grant writing.
This research study provides new insight into how teachers use social networking sites such as Twitter for professional purposes.
Langademy is a language learning social network. Students can learn with language exchanges or pay native speakers to have conversations with them. Teachers and tutors or native speakers can earn some money from home by teaching languages at Langademy. Language exchanges are based on a time bank system, with the aim of building a collaborative language community.