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Direct linkFernández, Susana S.; Pozzo, María Isabel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This paper discusses to what extent synchronous communication via Skype by Argentine university students of History and Danish university students of Spanish contributed to fostering intercultural competence in the two groups of participants. Intercultural gains are considered both as part of the planned tasks to be solved by the participants…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, History Instruction, Synchronous Communication
Kantz, Deirdre; Marenzi, Ivana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This article presents the findings of a field experiment in medical English with first-year medical students at the University of Pavia, Northern Italy. Working in groups of 8-10, the students were asked to produce a corpus of medical texts in English demonstrating how the human body is itself a meaningful text (Baldry and Thibault 2006: Ch. 1).…
Descriptors: Human Body, Medical Students, Medical Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Hsiao, Ya Ping; Broeder, Peter – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Twitter is becoming increasingly popular as a medium for language learning. This study explores self-directed learning via social interactions that use Twitter as an interactive learning environment. The participants in this study were thirty university students of Chinese as a foreign language at levels 1 and 2 of the "Hanyu Shuiping…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Scores, Learning Motivation, Questionnaires
