This site is designed to provide foreign language educators with useful links and resources for exploiting videoconferencing technology to develop their students' foreign language skills and intercultural communicative competence.
This site is run by Robert O'Dowd, a lecturer in EFL at the University of León, Spain.
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Videoconferencing between German and American students.
The following are on-line reports of how videoconferencing has already been used for teaching and learning the foreign language and the foreign culture.
Videoconferencing for Language Learning: An Introduction. A short overview of how the medium has been exploited in this area of education. Written by this author as part of his ongoing PhD research.
EnglishMeeting.com David Sconduto offers classes in EFL using desktop videoconferencing.
Webheads and Webcams.The Webheads project has started experimenting with videoconferencing. Find out more here.
VIDEO UND VIDEOCONFERENCING ZUR SPRACH- UND KULTURVERMITTLUNG An article in German by Stephan Sclickau on videoconferencing between the USA and Germany.
PRAXIS UND ANALYSE INTERKULTURELLER KOMMUNIKATION DURCH VIDEO UND VIDEOKONFERENZ Another article by the same author. Short clips of the conferences are included.
"Face-to-Face language learning at a distance?" This article by Robin Goodfellow et al. can be downloaded from the ReCALL website with Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be found on Volume 8, Number 2.
An MA Dissertation on Desktop videoconferencing This dissertation by Jeff Firestone looks at turn taking strategies by foreign language learners in the videoconferencing medium.
"Life in the Fishbowl" This short article describes the use of videoconferencing for Spanish language activities between elementary school classes in Mission and Mendocino.
NetLearn Languages This on-line Language school uses Internet videoconferencing to teach English, Spanish, Italian and other languages.
Whitby Video Conferencing project An account of primary schools in England getting to grips with videoconferencing.
Robert O'Dowd is a lecturer in EFL at the University of León in Spain. Any comments about this site should be sent to me at
dfmrod@unileon.es. In particular, I am interested in hearing from any teachers who have used videoconferencing technology to engage their classes in intercultural exchanges with learners in other countries. I would be delighted to publish a short description of your experiences on this site.Back to homepage
Last Updated: 13.02.04