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Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Education and Global Citizenship: Pedagogical Encounters and Endangered Spaces of Possibility
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Xu, Wen; Stahl, Garth – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Within the field of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) teaching, there has been limited engagement with Global Citizenship Education (GCE). The politicisation of CFL education in today's diverse and multilingual Australian classroom remains a significant cause for concern as it endangers spaces of pedagogic possibility. Drawing upon data from an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Chinese, Global Education
Peer Group Mediation Sessions as an Assessment Tool in Teletandem
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Elstermann, Anna-Katharina – Research-publishing.net, 2022
The purpose of this chapter is to present peer group mediation as one of the assessment practices within Teletandem Brasil, a Virtual Exchange (VE) project which uses tandem practice between university students of different countries for foreign language learning, carried out through videoconferencing tools. Peer group mediation sessions are…
Descriptors: Peer Mediation, Information Networks, College Students, Second Language Learning
Pre-Service Teachers' Translingual Negotiation Strategies at Work: Telecollaboration between France, Turkey, and the USA
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Uzum, Baburhan; Yazan, Bedrettin; Akayoglu, Sedat; Mary, Latisha – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
Our study draws from discussion board data from a telecollaboration including three teacher education courses in France, Turkey, and the USA. Our data analysis of three groups' conversations (n = 21) addressed this research question: How do participants use translingual negotiation strategies in online contact zones as they construct their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Intercultural Communication
Long-Term Impact of Four Intercultural Citizenship Projects in the Higher Education Foreign Language Classroom
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Porto, Melina – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study reports on the evaluation of long-term impact of four intercultural citizenship projects undertaken in university foreign language classrooms. Curricular developments based on Byram's intercultural citizenship theory have demonstrated the immediate impact including the development of self and intercultural awareness, criticality, social…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Justice
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? The Challenges of Web-Based Intercultural Dialogue
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Bali, Maha – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
Ellsworth's article entitled "Why doesn't this feel empowering? Working through the repressive myths of critical pedagogy" raises issues about the complex dynamics of implementing critical pedagogy in real classrooms, and the difficulties and paradoxes of putting the empowerment rhetoric into practice. This article analyses the…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Critical Theory, Race
A Multi-Cultural Interaction through Video Conferencing in Primary Schools
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Duygu Eristi, Suzan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
This study investigated Turkish and Canadian primary school students' ways of expressing their perception of cultural understanding through video conferencing and that of cultural interaction through video conferencing. The qualitative research data were collected in the form of interviews. The results obtained were analyzed and interpreted based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Multicultural Education, Intercultural Communication