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Nur Banu Gümüs; Mustafa Naci Kayaoglu – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study explores the results of an eTwinning project involving four countries, with a focus on collaboration between students from historically distant backgrounds: Turkey and Greece. It primarily aims to foster empathy and understanding, alleviate language anxiety, and enhance foreign language competence among the participants. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Programs, Grade 7
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Demirbilek, Muhammet; Ilvonen, Ilona; Valtins, Karlis; Di Mauro, Maura; Bernardes, Stephan O. C.; Williams, Idongesit – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
The need for neighbourness and Intercultural competences in Higher Education Institutions is ascending. This is because in recent times, there has been an increase in multicultural classrooms driven by globalization and the growth in global Internet connectivity. Globalization has enabled increased human mobility across physical national and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Multicultural Education
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Moalla, Asma; Abid, Nadia; Balaman, Ufuk – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This chapter presents a case study of an online task-enhanced Virtual Exchange (VE) project that involved 19 English students at Hacettepe University, Turkey, and 19 students of English at Sfax University, Tunisia. The objective behind the VE was to provide students with opportunities for intercultural and interactional development through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Electronic Learning, Student Projects
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Crum, Sibel; Basoglu, Emrah B. – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Virtual Exchange (VE) in second language education refers to a technology-enabled, interactive, intercultural experience that is designed to increase learners' intercultural communicative competence and performance. In this paper the findings of a bilingual (English/Turkish), synchronous video communication project among 31 US and Turkish college…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Dewan Türüdü, Aylin S.; Gürbüz, Nurdan Özbek – Intercultural Education, 2020
With the establishment of dual degree programmes between Turkish universities and the State University of New York (SUNY), the number of Turkish students studying in the US has increased substantially. The aim of this qualitative study is to shed light on the impact of the year abroad on student development by focusing on the perspectives of both…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Teacher Education Programs, Language Teachers
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Özdemir, Emrah – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
One of the main purposes of foreign language teaching is currently identified by many researchers as developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of foreign language learners. Facebook is one of the easiest and quickest ways to communicate with other people, therefore it may potentially be used to promote intercultural communicative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, Communication Skills
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Peterka-Benton, Daniela; Benton, Bond – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The construction of a successful online collaboration between distinct cultural groups requires an informed cultural awareness. This is the exploration of such an online collaboration between American and Turkish Students. The focus of the shared student interaction was the concept of corporate social responsibility. As the concept is enacted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
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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
Simsek, Ali; Nuss, Shirley – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate how elementary students can learn about the culture of another country and how technology can play a role in this process. The sample of the study included 135 fifth grade students from the United States and Turkey. Initial knowledge and information sources of students were assessed at the beginning of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Computer Uses in Education