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Supporting In-Service Language Educators in Learning to Telecollaborate
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O'Dowd, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
The importance of teachers' capacity to integrate and exploit computer mediated communication (CMC) in the foreign language classroom has been recognised by many of the leading publications in foreign language teacher education, including the European Profile for Language Teacher Education (2004) and the European portfolio for student teachers of…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer Feedback on Language Form in Telecollaboration
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Ware, Paige D.; O'Dowd, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2008
We performed a two-phase, year-long research project that explored the impact of peer feedback on language development. We investigated specifically how and when post-secondary learners of English and Spanish provide corrective feedback on their partners' use of the target language in weekly asynchronous discussions by assigning them to one of two…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spanish
Understanding the "Other Side": Intercultural learning in a Spanish-English E-Mail Exchange.
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O'Dowd, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2003
Reviews recent research on intercultural learning and reports on a yearlong e-mail exchange between Spanish and English second year university students. Identifies key characteristics of e-mail exchanges that helped to develop learners' intercultural communicative competence. Outlines elements of e-mail messages that may enable students to develop…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Electronic Mail