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Designing, implementing and evaluating a project in tandem language learning via e-mail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

David Little  and
Ema Ushioda
David Little
Affiliation:
Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Ema Ushioda
Affiliation:
Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin
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Abstract

Tandem language learning is based on a partnership between two people, each of whom is learning the other's language. Successful tandem partnerships observe the principle of reciprocity (“tandem learners support one another equally’) and the principle of learner autonomy (“tandem partners are responsible for their own learning”) (Little and Brammerts 1996: 1 Off.). This paper begins by exploring some of the theoretical implications of tandem language learning in general and tandem language learning via e-mail in particular. It then reports on the pilot phase of an e-mail tandem project involving Irish university students learning German and German university students learning English.

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ReCALL , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1998 , pp. 95 - 101
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1998

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