Benefits of contributing to participative sites

Acting online with other users, connecting with other people, expanding your networks, choosing the communities you want to participate in and contributing as you want to, can all be a motivating way to use and learn languages.

Participating online provides an opportunity to be an active member of online communities and make social connections.

While participating online, you can develop language knowledge and skills by observing what other members of the communities are doing and saying, as well as by practising languages. You can also gain confidence in your ability to use languages.

You can use the target language in an authentic communication situation. You can share information, ideas, etc. which are relevant to the community and to you.

Participating online can help you develop your creativity and digital skills (creating videos, animations, searching for information, digital identity, ...). You can combine all your knowledge and skills (what you know about the world, use of emoticons and illustrations...) to improve your ability to communicate.

In online communities, you can (inter)act with people with different sets of values, beliefs and practices. You can also develop an identity as a member of the language community.