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Matthew’s Connecting learning across the world post is about a collaborative project with 30 schools around the world that use online technology to support their students’ language learning. It is a fantastic idea to motivate our students to learn a second language! I think that the students will get a feeling of connectiveness. Communicating  in the target language they learn, will help them recognise and explore connections between classroom knowledge and situations outside the classroom. It will create a personal meaning for the students and will highlight the significance of the language learnt. In my opinion and from my experiences so far, I believe that podcasting and even typing in another language using a keyboard with English characters can  be a fun, challenging and productive activity in terms of language production. The students are given the opportunity to apply their knowledge in real life situations and they have an audience beyond the classroom. For all these reasons I believe that projects like this,could potentially be one of the most effective ways to encourage students to learn a foreign language.