E-mail Interaction in Foreign Language Learning

E-mail has been implemented in foreign language learning and teaching for many years.It is widely approved that language learners’ communicative competence and intercultural competence can be developed through e-mail interaction in spite of the problems and difficulties existing in the process of designing and carrying out of an e-mail project.Hence,more and more language teachers from different countries are trying to search for the possibilities of integrating email interaction in their teaching context so as to improve the language-learning environment.