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Successful Telecollaboration Exchanges in Primary and Secondary Education: What Are the Challenges?
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Jauregi, Kristi; Melchor-Couto, Sabela – Research-publishing.net, 2018
The TeCoLa project promotes telecollaboration to foster meaningful foreign language learning particularly in secondary schools throughout Europe. In 2018, a number of pilot experiences are being conducted. This paper focusses on one of these pilot experiences, where learners from a Dutch secondary school and a Spanish primary school…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Secondary School Students
Integrating Cross-Cultural Interaction through Video-Communication and Virtual Worlds in Foreign Language Teaching Programs: Is There an Added Value?
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Canto, Silvia; Jauregi, Kristi; van den Bergh, Huub – ReCALL, 2013
Organizing and implementing telecollaboration projects in foreign language curricula is not an easy endeavour (Belz & Thorne, 2006; Guth & Helm, 2010), as pedagogical, organizational and technical issues have to be addressed before cross-cultural interaction sessions can be carried out (O'Dowd & Ritter, 2006; O'Dowd, 2011). These issues make many…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
Cross-Cultural Discussions in a 3D Virtual Environment and Their Affordances for Learners' Motivation and Foreign Language Discussion Skills
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Jauregi, Kristi; Kuure, Leena; Bastian, Pim; Reinhardt, Dennis; Koivisto, Tuomo – Research-publishing.net, 2015
Within the European TILA project a case study was carried out where pupils from schools in Finland and the Netherlands engaged in debating sessions using the 3D virtual world of OpenSim once a week for a period of 5 weeks. The case study had two main objectives: (1) to study the impact that the discussion tasks undertaken in a virtual environment…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Debate, Computer Simulation
Native/Non-Native Speaker Interactions through Video-Web Communication: A Clue for Enhancing Motivation?
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Jauregi, Kristi; de Graaff, Rick; van den Bergh, Huub; Kriz, Milan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
One of the main objectives of the European Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research (NIFLAR) project is to make foreign language learning and teaching processes more relevant and rewarding for reaching intercultural communicative competence. This is realized by offering foreign language learners and pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages), Native Speakers
Integrating Cross-Cultural Interaction through Video-Communication and Virtual Worlds in Foreign Language Teaching Programs: Burden or Added Value?
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Jauregi, Kristi; de Graaff, Rick; Canto, Silvia – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2011
Organizing and implementing telecollaboration projects in foreign language curricula is not an easy endeavour (Belz & Thorne, 2006; Guth & Helm, 2010), as pedagogical, organizational and technical issues have to be addressed before cross-cultural interaction sessions can be carried out (O'Dowd & Ritter, 2006). These issues make many teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries, Video Technology
Verbal Interaction in "Second Life": Towards a Pedagogic Framework for Task Design
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Jauregi, Kristi; Canto, Silvia; de Graaff, Rick; Koenraad, Ton; Moonen, Machteld – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
Within a European project on Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research (NIFLAR), "Second Life" was used as a 3D virtual world in which language students can communicate synchronously with native speakers in the target language, while undertaking action together. For this context, a set of design principles for…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Familiarity, Interpersonal Relationship
Impact of Native-Nonnative Speaker Interaction through Video Communication and Second Life on Students' Intercultural Communicative Competence
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Jauregi, Kristi; Canto, Silvia – Research-publishing.net, 2012
One of the key concerns of educators is to come to know what works in language teaching and under which conditions (Intercultural) Communicative Competence can be furthered. This concern is even bigger among professionals experimenting or willing to experiment with new media. Following socio-constructivist theories of learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers, Computer Assisted Instruction