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Çiftçi, Emrullah Yasin; Daloglu, Aysegül – Intercultural Education, 2021
Short-term study abroad programmes can help prospective language teachers develop intercultural competences, vital when working with socially and linguistically diverse language learners. However, participating in such programmes does not necessarily lead to a more advanced level of interculturality. Induction programmes before mobility periods…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Baburhan Uzum; Bedrettin Yazan; Sedat Akayoglu; Ufuk Keles – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to examine how teacher candidates (TCs) in Türkiye and the USA navigate their intercultural communication skills in a telecollaboration project. Design/methodology/approach: Forty-eight TCs participated (26 in Türkiye and 22 in the USA) in the study. TCs discussed critical issues in multicultural education on an online…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes
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Üzüm, Babürhan; Akayoglu, Sedat; Yazan, Bedrettin – ReCALL, 2020
Since advances in computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools have made virtual exchanges readily available in educational practices, telecollaboration has been gaining traction as a means to provide practical experiences and cultural exposure to language learners and, more recently, teacher trainees. Drawing upon Byram's (1997) model of…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning
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Daggöl, Gökçe Dislen – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Success and failure are like the two sides of the same coin, and as humans, we tend to find reasons for our successes and failures in life. Doing translations undoubtedly presents a professional environment in which it is quite natural to experience both success and failure. However, how we perceive success and failure, and how we approach them…
Descriptors: Translation, Student Attitudes, Program Descriptions, Foreign Countries
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Lázár, Ildikó – Language Learning Journal, 2015
This article is based on an analysis of a small sample of data from an international web collaboration project between four classes of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners guided by their English teachers in four different countries in Europe. As few studies have been published about intercultural communication in blended learning EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Novy, Andreas – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this self-reflective paper is to focus on practical efforts to combat inequality and foster intercultural dialogue in education. It introduces "knowledge alliances", a type of social practice open for education technologies. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is structured in a theoretical and an empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
Elsner, Daniela – Online Submission, 2011
This paper describes the theoretical framework and the main objectives of the European Comenius project MuViT -- Multiliteracy Virtual. The project engages primary pupils across the world in multilingual and audiovisual reading and writing processes through the use of information technology resources to enhance multi-literacies, plurilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Writing Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Keranen, Nancy; Bayyurt, Yasemin – TESL-EJ, 2006
This paper reports on the pairing of Spanish-speaking in-service teachers and Turkish-speaking pre-service teachers in a telecollaborative intercultural project in which English was used as a lingua franca. The authors of this paper were the course leaders. Participants' discourses were examined to understand how they communicated their cultures…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning