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Alice Gruber; Silvia Canto; Kristi Jauregi-Ondarra – ReCALL, 2023
Mentored online intercultural interaction offers foreign language learners the opportunity to develop different competences, including intercultural, linguistic, and digital competence (O'Dowd, 2021). Such virtual exchange (VE) projects typically involve computer-mediated communication via, for example, Zoom. However, the use of high-immersion…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Interpersonal Relationship
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Liaw, Meei-Ling – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
This study investigates the effects of using open social VR for university English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' intercultural communication learning. The project involved two stages: (1) carefully designed activities for students to practice different language-learning tasks with their peers; (2) implemented in an open social VR…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hadjistassou, Stella K. – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2016
This study investigated the culturally contingent tensions afforded by the implementation of Second Life in transatlantic communications among 13 college-level students at a Southwestern academic institution in the United States and their instructor and an assistant professor and his graduate student at a Greek-speaking academic institution. The…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Computer Simulation, College Students, Computer Uses in Education