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Satar, Müge; Hauck, Mirjam; Bilki, Zeynep – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
For agentive and influential involvement in online communities, language learners and teachers need to develop critical digital literacy (CDL), conceptualized by Darvin (2017) as an awareness of "how meanings are represented in ways that maintain and reproduce relations of power" (p. 5) and thus privilege some and marginalize others…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Digital Literacy, Semiotics, Foreign Countries
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Fahriye Altinay; Nesrin M. Bahcelerli; Ramesh Chander Sharma; Nurdan Atamturk; Zehra Altinay; Gokmen Dagli; Mehmet Altinay – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
The student exchange programs are venues for learning opportunities by offering multicultural contexts. This study reports on the experiences of ten prospective English language teachers in a virtual student exchange program to investigate likely skill development in a multicultural and open and distance learning setting. This descriptive study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), International Educational Exchange, Student Exchange Programs
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Luo, Han; Yang, Chunsheng – ReCALL, 2022
Despite the rapid development of virtual exchange in foreign language education, its use in the field of Chinese language education is still rather nascent. Adopting a mixed-methods research approach, this study focuses on examining the pedagogical benefits of a Chinese-American virtual exchange as mediated by students' self-reported data. Two…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Student Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange, Foreign Countries
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Cioltan-Draghiciu, Andra; Stanciu, Daniela – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The aim of this Virtual Exchange (VE) project was to bring together students from the Andrássy Gyula German speaking university (AUB) in Budapest, Hungary, and Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu (LBUS), Romania, in order for them to get to know their neighbors and reflect on the way the end of WWI is remembered 100 years later. In this case study,…
Descriptors: Student Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange, Foreign Countries, Universities
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Shimizu, Yoshihiko; Pack, Dwayne; Kano, Mikio; Okazaki, Hiroyuki; Yamamura, Hiroto – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The purpose of this report is to compare the effects of "telecollaborative classes" between students in Japan and those in Asian-Pacific countries such as Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States (Hawaii). The telecollaborative classes are part of the Asian-Pacific Exchange Collaboration (APEC) project, a 4-year project involving students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange, English (Second Language)
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Kato, Fumie; Spring, Ryan; Mori, Chikako – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Providing learners of a foreign language with meaningful opportunities for interactions, specifically with native speakers, is especially challenging for instructors. One way to overcome this obstacle is through video-synchronous computer-mediated communication tools such as Skype software. This study reports quantitative and qualitative data from…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Second Language Learning, Videoconferencing
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Zheng, Dongping; Schmidt, Matthew; Hu, Ying; Liu, Min; Hsu, Jesse – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The purpose of this research was to explore the relationships between design, learning, and translanguaging in a 3D collaborative virtual learning environment for adolescent learners of Chinese and English. We designed an open-ended space congruent with ecological and dialogical perspectives on second language acquisition. In such a space,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Educational Environment, Chinese, Language Acquisition