USING E-MAILS:ISSUES

- Your learners don’t have email accounts.

In that case the teacher has to help the students to open an email account. First of all, you can find out how much they know concerning to the internet by making them some questions, in order to explain what to do next as to get one.

b- Your learners don’t know how to send or open email attachments.

 The teacher has to help the students out of class  with basic steps like opening or sending messages.

 Then open yours and send one of your students some info so as to describe the only way to send and open email attachments. 

c-   Your learners use abbreviations such as CU (´see you´) or the lower case i in all their emails.

Explain students that the language they use when chatting is no aceptable for writing an email.

d- You would like to provide your learners with a weekly emailed summary of classwork covered, but have not time to do so.

One way to make a summary every week is to send them a page where they can find plenty of information about the topic to be developed. Not only this, but also the importance to let them know they can count on you if something is misunderstood. Then, they will have just to send you an email with some questions to be answered.

e- Your learners are reluctant to do the extra work that belonging to a class email discussion list involves, and do not contribute much.

Focus is provided by having clear tasks for each email as in the outline above. Don`t expect learners to simply write an email . dont give learners  to simply write an email  to a stranger without any guidance as to contento r language.

f-    In a keypal project, your learners don’t know what to write to their partner in another country.

 Explain your students that this kind of Project is very important for both th eones you have and the ones from other country. Encourage them.

g-   Your learners are upset by emails received from the partner country, as they find them “rude” or “aggressive”.

Explain students that missunderestanding can and do arise in email Communications, especially when a second language is being used between  two different  cultural groups  so it is worth making your students aware of the dangers.