Sociocultural-Linguistics & Pragmatics College & University Education Practice-Oriented Long Workshop
International Online Communication Made Easy With the IVE Project
If you want your students to use the English they are studying in class to interact with others around the world, come to this workshop to find out how. It is easy and free-of-charge whilst the benefits are numerous. Students love being able to interact with their peers in other countries. While doing so they improve their linguistic, intercultural and communicative competencies as has been proven by research into this project.
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Eric Hagley is a research fellow at Hosei University in Japan. He created the International Virtual Exchange Project (IVEProject) which has had over 30,000 students from 25 countries participating in Virtual Exchange (VE) over the last 6 years. The IVEProject continues to expand and is one of many VE that are changing the way communicative language teaching is being taught. He has written and presented on VE extensively. He is the co-chair and president of the Asia Pacific Virtual Exchange Association (APVEA) and was vice-president of PacCALL from 2009 to 2018. He was also head of the Quiz Quality Assurance Project for MoodleReader (mReader).