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Chen, Hsin-I; Sevilla-Pavón, Ana – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
This study examines how English-as-lingua-franca (ELF) learners employ semiotic resources, including head movements, gestures, facial expression, body posture, and spatial juxtaposition, to negotiate for meaning in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment. Ten ELF learners participated in a TaiwanSpain VR virtual exchange project and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Montaner-Villalba, Salvador; Gimeno-Sanz, Ana; Di Sarno-García, Sofia; Sevilla-Pavón, Ana; Nicolaou, Anna; Koris, Rita; Vuylsteke, Jean-François – Research-publishing.net, 2022
There is no doubt that telecollaboration currently plays an important role in foreign language learning and, not less so, in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Guth (2020) highlighted how telecollaboration has rapidly evolved in the past years as an innovative approach, and how it has brought together a whole community of academics…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Di Sarno-García, Sofia – The EUROCALL Review, 2023
Telecollaboration has proved to be an excellent means for the development of students' intercultural skills (O'Dowd & Dooly, 2012). Based on this presumption, a telecollaborative project was carried out between B2 level (CEFR) learners of English from Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) and B1 level (CEFR) students of Spanish as a…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Telecommunications, Cooperative Learning
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Manegre, Marni; Udeshinee, Piyumi – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study addresses interculturality and Intercultural Competence (IC) by connecting university students in Spain and Sri Lanka through the use of the Soqqle app, an education-based video app. The students were asked to create five videos independently using English as a lingua franca and upload each video to the app related to the assigned…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Video Technology, College Students
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Garcia, Consuelo; Badia, Antoni – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2020
This study evaluated the online participation of 40 students who, while studying a graduate programme in a fully online higher education institution, were assigned to small online groups for a four-week period in order to develop a written task. The type and frequency of their postings in the online forums were analysed. In addition, knowledge…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Cooperative Learning, Online Courses
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Casañ-Pitarch, Ricardo; Candel-Mora, Miguel Ángel; Carrió-Pastor, Maria Luisa; Demydenko, Olga; Tikan, Iana – Advanced Education, 2020
This paper presents an experiment which focused on determining if a telecollaborative project work would help enhance students' foreign language skills and cross-cultural competence. Students from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the Polytechnic University of Valencia worked together during the fall term in 2020, in which 56 Ukrainian…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Student Projects
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Pérez-López, Raúl; Gurrea-Sarasa, Raquel; Herrando, Carolina; Martín-De Hoyos, María José; Bordonaba-Juste, Victoria; Utrillas-Acerete, Ana – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Twitter is a microblog that allows users to interact about a topic in online discussion. This makes it an interesting interactive tool with possibilities to increase student engagement and learning performance through active collaboration in an informal learning environment. However, few articles take a quantitative approach to investigate the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Cognitive Processes, Affective Behavior, Social Media
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Istifci, Ilknur; Dogan Ucar, Asiye – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2021
The various possibilities that social media offers to language learners and teachers have long been recognized by researchers within the field of language instruction, and many studies have been carried out in an attempt to address and unpack its potential contributions. This paper aims to review such research on the use of mainstream social media…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Videoconferencing
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Gutiérrez-Porlán, Isabel; Román-García, Marimar; Sánchez-Vera, María-del-Mar – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2018
The impact that Information and Communications Technologies have in the way today's young people communicate and interact is unquestionable. This impact also affects the educational field, which is required to respond to the needs of twenty first century students by training them in acquiring new skills and strategies to deal with a changing and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
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Di Sarno-García, Sofia – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This paper presents a six-week telecollaborative project carried out between B2 (Common European Framework of Reference for languages -- CEFR) level learners of English from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, and B1 (CEFR) level students of Spanish as a foreign language from the University of Bath (UK). The aim of the project…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Canals, Laia – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
The present study aims to assess the benefits of participating in a virtual language exchange (VE) for practicing oral skills with native speakers by measuring learners' motivation to learn the language, communicate, and collaborate. The oral language development of advanced learners of English at a Spanish university was compared with a control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Dooly, Melinda; Tudini, Vincenza – Classroom Discourse, 2022
This paper takes a multimodal conversation analytic approach to explore knowledge-in-interaction in a technology-mediated online environment (Skype videoconference) during a meeting between eight university students studying to become language teachers. The analysis considers the ways in which the student-teachers demonstrate their knowledge or…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Student Teachers, Information Seeking, Discourse Analysis
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Oggel, Gerdientje; Aibar, Cristina Pascual; Fildjokic, Mirjana – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most classes in higher education were offered online, and student and staff mobility came to a sudden halt. With its focus on online interaction and collaboration between students from different cultural backgrounds, Virtual Exchange (VE) has presented itself as an excellent opportunity to students and educators to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, Research Universities, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Manegre, Marni; Gutiérrez-Colón, Mar; Gisbert, Mercè – The EUROCALL Review, 2019
This paper presents the first phase of a study conducted to analyze Knowledge Building forums for evidence of second language acquisition. This study is an analysis of the posts within an existing forum in search of evidence of foreign language learning. The analysis found that the collaborative writing project shows evidence that the students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
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Jensen, Matilde Bisballe; Utriainen, Tuuli Maria; Steinert, Martin – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
This paper presents the experienced difficulties of students participating in the multidisciplinary, remote collaborating engineering design course challenge-based innovation at CERN. This is with the aim to identify learning barriers and improve future learning experiences. We statistically analyse the rated differences between distinct design…
Descriptors: Barriers, Concept Mapping, Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education
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