COLEXA = Collaborative Language Exchange and Acquisition

This site is currently inactive.

This site is being set up to use with an upcoming exchange between writing classes at UC Davis and NPUE (National Pingtung University of Education). This exchange is loosely based on the MIT Cultura program. Some of the question prompts have been taken from Cultura example exchanges. Many of the prompts below have been taken verbatim from http://cultura.mit.edu/answerArchived/index/exchange_id/94.

141230 update

The responses to the prompts below were collected using the forms located at  http://colexa.net/exchange01/.

Questionnaires

Word association

1. Family
2. Weekend
3. Graduation
4. Neighbors
5. Guns
6. Community
7. Police
8. Love
9. War
10. Responsibility
11. Youth
12. Pets
13. Cartoons
14. America
15. Taiwan

Sentence completion

1. A good neighbor is someone who...
2. A good parent is someone who...
3. A good citizen is someone who...
4. A good teacher is someone who...
5. A rude person is someone who...
6. My greatest fears are...
7. In five years I hope to be or have...

Situations

1. You are at the movies. The people sitting right behind you make loud comments about the film.
2. You are walking down the street in a big city. A stranger approaches you with a big smile.
3. You are walking down the street. You see someone throw an empty can of Coke on the sidewalk.
4. You have been waiting in line for ten minutes. Someone cuts the line in front of you.
5. You see a mother in a supermarket slap her child.
6. A police officer stops you in the street and asks for your ID.
7. Your are on a bus or a train. The person sitting next to you is talking non stop on a cell phone.
8. You see a student next to you cheating on an exam.