Rita+Zeinstejer

Rosario, Argentina
 * Rita Zeinstejer**


 * BIO**

* EFL teacher in Rosario, Argentina, with +30 years' experience teaching English at all levels, mainly preparing students for Cambridge FCE and CAE. * Cambridge Oral Examiner, Area Manager for Advanced Courses, and Self Access, Laboratory and Multimedia Coordinator at //[|Asociacion Rosarina de Cultura Inglesa.]// * CALL SIG Coordinator for the Association of Teachers in Rosario since 2001. * Presenter of different live and online sessions on **//ICT and CMC for Language Learning//** in Rosario, Buenos Aires, Brazil, and at national and international Conferences, seminars and Conventions, for // [|LABCI], [|TESOL], [|IATEFL], [|FAAPI], [|APrIR]// //,// after a course in Cambridge, England, in August, 1999, on //**CALL**//. * Participant in online Conferences and Congresses as a member of //[|Webheads in Action]// website: [|www.zeinstejer.com] http://ritazeinstejer.pbwiki.com/ email: rita@zeinstejer.com

**Abstract**
Language learners should be exposed to meaningful, authentic situations if we want them to develop their language skills to communicate safely and successfully. The four walls of a classroom, textbooks and a teacher-model no longer provide the appropriate environment for real learning in an era when the internet offers educators the chance to communicate synchronous and asynchronously with likeminded people from all corners in the world. It is a must, for us, teachers, to show our students the true value of interacting, exchanging culture and sharing experiences through the language they have been learning in restricted, artificial conditions. This presentation will describe two projects EFL students in Rosario, Argentina carried out with native and non-native English speakers: one, with ten members of the Webhead community, the other, with students from Seoul, Korea, through a wiki at http://caeb2008.pbwiki.com/ and through a classblog at http://caeb2008.pbwiki.com/

//**You'll find the ppt presentation in Slideshare by clicking [|HERE].**//