Talk: From Conversation to Creation with Lingua Connect
Discover how connecting classrooms across countries can energise language education. Join Lingua Connect students and teachers to explore and celebrate collaborative authentic learning.
What happens when students learn each other’s languages while creating something together? Join students and teachers from Leeds and partner universities in Brazil and Mexico to explore how Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) can spark curiosity, build confidence and create meaningful opportunities to use languages.
This talk will be delivered by members of the Lingua Connect team and students from Lingua Connect in UK and Mexico.
Open to all | Hybrid Event | Booking required for online attendance
This is a Leeds City of Languages Festival event. Check the full programme at leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk
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