Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing
This entry is about explaining the ideas of telecollaboration and how it can be beneficial for developing intercultural on writing and speaking tasks. What is telecollaboration? It is connecting learners from different part of the world through different types of technological devices such as emails, social networks, instant messaging apps, blogs, wikis or online learning environments that allow them to share their culture and approach a different culture than theirs. There are three different types according to the implementation that the teacher and the learners what to develop within their classes. Tandem language learning (e-tandem as its online equivalent) · It involves a language exchange and collaboration between two partners of different mother tongue · Learners must make use of both languages during an hour or so · learners speak in their mother tongue for thirty minutes and switch to practice their target language ·