2. E-Mail Keypals for Language Fluency Thomas N. Robb Noriko Koizumi

3. Benefits To practice in reading/writing To motivate learning the target language and culture To really use the language outside of the classroom context.

4. Types of Keypals “Traditional” one-on-one type “Tandem exchange” “Student List”

5. Possible Problems Not good correspondents Not good at writing letters of interest »two or three partners A mismatch in the number of times:each class meets per week, in the length of the school

6. Finding Keypal Partners IECC(International E-Mail classroom Connections –http://www.solaf.edu/network/iecc Kidlink –KIDCAFE-COORD--KIDCAFE-INDIVIDUAL –KIDCAFE-SCHOOL--KIDCAFE-TOPICS –KIDCAFE-QUERY Linguistic Funland –http://www.linguistic-funland.com/addapal.html –http://www.linguistic-funland.com/penpalpostings.html EF Engishtown –http://www.englishtown.com/

7. Finding Keypal Partners Rigby Heinemann Keypals List (Australia) –http://www.reedbooks.com.au/heinemann/global/global.com/ Pen Pal Quebec - for French –http://www.vir.com/~paulo/list.html For Spanish –http://www.inetworlnet/eac/penpal.htm E-Mail Amigos –http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7409/flaglinks.html Advertising your class on mailing list For more resources –http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/www/keypal.htm

8. Understanding the Other Class’s Expectations How each teacher plans to integrate the e- mail activities into his/her own curriculum How often? How long the correspondence should be? How to evaluate?

9. Preparing Your Students The technical skills The language skills »be sure to supply them a useful set of phrases for openings, closings, and other functions

10. Tracking Your Students Problems –time management –the volume of correspondence –assigning a grade based on their performance Solution –keep a log of their correspondence

11. Tandem Learning To learn each other’s language To learn more about their partner and his culture To exchange knowledge –http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/email/infen.html

12. Student Lists for Fostering Communication Between Learners Students send their messages to an e-mail list –share similar intrest CHAT-SL MOVIE-HSL SPORTS-SL ENGL-SL –http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/educations/sl/sl.html

13. Conclusion An extremely rewarding experience for your students Discover the best implementation for your own curriculum