Social Language Learning -- Virtual Communities of Practice

These social networking sites connect you with foreign language partners around the world. Join one of them if you want to improve your language skills and help others improve theirs.

• Kantalk
• Busuu
• Italki
• Livemocha
• Babbel
• Palabea
• My Language Exchange
  

Suggested Activities

1. Improve your language skills at your own pace from the comfort of your home.
2. Teach language skills to a language partner from anywhere in the world.
3. Ask your students to join any of these sites and report back to you what they taught/learned and how effective it was for their and/or others' language progress.
4. Ask students to design lesson plans to teach in any of these sites, and to report back their experiences teaching the lessons to their language partners.
5. Ask students to discuss the pros and cons of using any of these sites for language learning.