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From http://fltmag.com/penpals-with-purpose/

Leigh Sapp describes how she resolved her quest for a meaningful penpal program for her Spanish students. She had her AP and Spanish 4 students correspond with Spanish-speaking students at a newcomer center (for students who have recently arrived in the United States) in her district. She writes, “As a World Languages staff, we work laboriously to align our curriculum, at all levels of instruction, to AP standards. The AP Spanish Language Exam has an interpersonal email component which is practiced at the lower levels as a structured email. For the upper levels, I was yearning and searching for a way to create an authentic communication exchange with native speakers to provide our students with comprehensible input that would also be meaningful. Furthermore we encourage our students to draw comparisons between their culture(s) and others on a variety of themes. One of these themes is immigration. We strive to educate them in regards to the humanity and reality- the faces and stories- of immigration regardless of legal status.”

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