This presentation reports on an online ESL teaching project in which Chilean college students chatted with Californian prospective teachers. Using discourse analysis, the presentation illustrates how text chat sessions improved students’ communicative and intercultural competence. It draws implications for teaching and research practice in incorporating text chat in language classrooms.

Community service projects allow IEP students to participate in a wide variety of communicative tasks both inside and outside the classroom. This presentation discusses a food drive organized by a class of high intermediate IEP students and offers suggestions for teachers interested in organizing their own community service projects.

Using dialogue journals is a low-stress way of fostering holistic learner growth while giving teachers the opportunity to track students’ writing fluency, vocabulary, creativity, and confidence. Presenter will guide attendees through the journal writing component of an intermediate ESL writing course in a university intensive English program.

This presentation describes results of a survey on Korean students’ use of English outside of class: motivation to learn English, hours spent using English out of class, difficulties in using English out of class, and relationships with Korean friends. Implications for teaching will be discussed.