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- Title
"I learned that there's a state called Victoria and he has six blue-tongued lizards!".
- Authors
Charro, Nancy Necora
- Abstract
The article examines, how fourth-grade students and teachers perceived the Internet pen pal program, using teacher and student interviews. The program gives students the opportunities to communicate with students around the world and entails the classroom teacher setting up individual pen pals with another class using electronic mail to facilitate communication. It discusses the advantages of electronic communication. The students' written-language production is positively affected by the Internet pen pal program.
- Subjects
INTERNET in education; COMPUTERS in education; PEN pals; INTERNATIONAL correspondence; EMAIL systems; WRITTEN communication
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 8, p762
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.60.8.6