Ida Sessarego Chile -France exchange
School or Organization Name: Universidad Santa Maria
Co-Presenter Name(s): Phil Wade
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Chile
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): Teachers
Short Session Description (one line): Cultural and academic exchange carried out by undergraduate students.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
Last term the spanish-speaking undergraduate students from my english classes carried out a cultural exchange with French undegraduate students from a similar engineering school in Bordeaux, France.
The objective was to help our students learn about another culture firsthand and also make interesting friends doing debates for a couple of months as an out-of-class activity.
The students voluntarily signed up for a page in a site called grouply.com under the name of chileanfrench students for Chilean students and Chile France exchange for French students where they met up and were grouped by the teachers, according to their level of English for doing the tasks given.
Every week we posted a topic introduced by a video, or a picture. and discussion questions to end up with a conclusion giving an opinion about the topic.
The students agreed on a time to meet and discussed the topic through skype or mail or any of the technologies available for them.
For most of them, this was the first time they talked to someone in English.
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