Welcome to the e-TANDEM platform for Upper Secondary

Are you a teacher in Switzerland interested in a digital exchange between classes as part of your teaching programme?

Find a class in another linguistic region and take advantage of the many teaching, technical and organisational resources available. In a TANDEM, students are both learners and teachers, and benefit from authentic contact with the foreign language. The relevance of an e-TANDEM project is ideally enhanced by real-life meeting days.

What is an E-TANDEM?

E-TANDEM brings together two classes from different language regions.

Pupils work in pairs (TANDEMs) with a partner from another language region. These exchanges encourage authentic language use and strengthen intercultural skills.

This approach ideally complements language teaching by giving meaning to the learning process.

Find a partner class

Using the platform, you can search for teachers who share the same teaching objectives and easily organise a joint project.
You are free to decide:

  • The language of the exchange
  • The details of collaboration
  • The duration of the project

A toolkit to support you

To help you set up exchanges, the platform offers, amongst other things:

  • Communication activities
  • Practical guides
  • Organisational suggestions

You are free to use these resources as they are or adapt them to your teaching.

Why set up an E-TANDEM?

E-TANDEM enables your pupils to:

  • Practise the language in authentic communication situations
  • Develop their speaking skills
  • Gain confidence
  • Discover another linguistic and cultural region of Switzerland
  • Strengthen their social, digital and intercultural skills
  • Make language learning more meaningful

TANDEM Partners