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Amy Bliss McHugh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Intercultural competence (IC) is essential for fostering meaningful interactions and understanding in diverse environments, particularly in today's pluralistic societies. The impacts of both intercultural competence and incompetence are profound, shaping relationships and outcomes in various ways. Many definitions of IC emphasize being 'effective'…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Computer Mediated Communication, Metacognition
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Freiermuth, Mark R.; Huang, Hsin-chou – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
In the context of learning a second language, the passing on of cultural information as a means to further the development of intercultural competences is primarily viewed as being unidirectional--the "native-speaking culture" passing on information to the language learning student. However, in EFL (English as a foreign language)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Videoconferencing, College Students
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Beaven, Ana; Davies, Gillian – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This presentation focuses on the Erasmus+ online introductory training course, which aims to introduce university educators and administrative/technical staff to Virtual Exchange (VE). The training, which requires no previous experience with VE, engages the participants in tasks that help them understand the requirements to successfully integrate…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hilal Peker; Torlak, Metin; Toprak-Çelen, Esma; Eren, Gamze; Günsan, Meral – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
Language teacher identity has been studied in several contexts in English Language Teaching (ELT) field; however, looking at language teacher identity in a United States context in which teachers from other countries teach their native languages as a foreign language has been a rare topic so far. Therefore, this phenomenological qualitative study…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Phenomenology, Language Teachers, Professional Identity
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Koris, Rita; Hernández-Nanclares, Núria; Mato Díaz, Francisco Javier – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This chapter presents a Transnational Virtual Exchange (VE) Project (TEP) developed in partnership between a Spanish and a Hungarian university. During this semester-long project, students worked in mixed virtual teams exploring selected topics related to the economics of the European Union. This report provides the details of the planning,…
Descriptors: Economics Education, International Educational Exchange, Exchange Programs, Student Attitudes
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Amos, Yukari Takimoto; Rehorst, Nicole – Journal of International Students, 2018
The purpose of this practitioner narrative is to identify ways in which meaningful interaction can take place between English learners (ELs) and domestic students in a university setting. In order to learn English effectively, ELs require situations in which they can participate equally in an interaction with a domestic student capable of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Interaction, Peer Relationship, English Language Learners
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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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Hains-Wesson, Rachael; Appleby, Mary – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
This article presents an evaluation research outcome that used a mixed method approach. The study evaluated a short-term, study tour unit that was offered as an elective, credit-bearing, work-integrated learning experience for second year undergraduate students at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. The unit of study offered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Programs, Field Experience Programs, International Educational Exchange
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Hagley, Eric, Ed.; Wang, Yi'an, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual Exchange (VE) is of great import to language and culture teachers and researchers but is also gaining popularity in other fields. However, around the world and in the Asia-Pacific region in particular, the number of exchanges is not high and the quality of those that exist needs to continue to improve. It is essential that the latest…
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Machado, Lisiane; Klein, Amarolinda Zanela; Freitas, Angilberto; Schlemmer, Eliane; Pedron, Cristiane Drebes – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2016
In this research, the authors present a framework for developing Intercultural Competence (IC) and use Tridimensional Digital Virtual Worlds (3DVW) as environments for developing Intercultural Competence. They developed an artifact, via Design Research, constituted by an educational method using the 3DVW Second Life® as the place for a virtual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness, Computer Simulation, Intercultural Communication
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Uhlenwinkel, Anke – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
"Young people on the global stage: their education and influence" is an EU-funded project that involves teachers and students from three European countries (Britain, Germany and Spain) and teachers from several African countries with a focus on The Gambia and Kenya. The main aim of the project is to promote an understanding of some of…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Akbaba, Yasemin; Baskan, Filiz – Research in Learning Technology, 2017
This study reports on an international project in which students taking the course "Contemporary Issues in Turkish Politics" in spring 2011 and fall 2011 at two institutions of higher education, "Gettysburg College" in the United States and "Izmir University of Economics" in Turkey, worked together in virtual learning…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, International Educational Exchange
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Fernández-Raga, María; Villard, Thierry – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This case study describes two iterations of a cross-disciplinary Virtual Exchange (VE) project developed between the Universities of Bordeaux (France) and León (Spain), involving students of Applied Physics and Measurement Engineering (APME), and Electrical Engineering. The students worked together on designing a real garden in Bordeaux within…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Virtual Classrooms, Physics
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Baroni, Alice; Dooly, Melinda; García, Pilar Garcés; Guth, Sarah; Hauck, Mirjam; Helm, Francesca; Lewis, Tim; Mueller-Hartmann, Andreas; O'Dowd, Robert; Rienties, Bart; Rogaten, Jekaterina – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Students of initial teacher education need to be prepared for the classrooms of tomorrow. Teachers require the necessary skills and competences to teach in culturally diverse contexts, to collaborate across disciplines, and to use technologies in innovative ways; but the Digital Economy and Society Index reports that only 20-25% of students in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy
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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
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