Lang8 - A language learning community
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Lang8 - A language learning community


Lang-8, which I found here, is an interesting new piece of social media that could be very useful for encouraging learner autonomy and giving students the opportunity to engage in personalised writing practice. You can type journal entries in the language that you are learning and the idea is that native speakers will provide correction - 'social correction'! Also, as it is an interactive, cooperative environment, you can play the teacher and correct other learners' writing. 


I haven't had a chance to try the site out myself, but it immediately struck me as a fantastic idea, bringing social interaction, journal writing and peer correction together. 





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