Refugees
and economic migrant English Language students at Unitec have expressed
the desire for more interaction with 'real Kiwis'. For beginners, face
to face interaction is often daunting. Email is being used as a means
of providing that interaction in a 'safe' environment where they can
think about the language they are going to use. The students have been
paired with native speakers and are undertaking a number of tasks via
email. The content of the email exchanges is also being
examined for evidence of language learning. In future, the data
collated will be compared to that gathered from a similar email
exchange with non-native speakers.
The presentation aims to
provide insight into setting up email exchanges for language learning,
supporting non-computer literate students to use email, and issues
surrounding native versus non-native speaker email exchanges.
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