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Bachelor, Jeremy W.; Barnard Bachelor, Robin – Online Submission, 2019
The "NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements for Intercultural Communication" (2017) task educators with helping students better recognize "obviously inappropriate behaviors in familiar everyday situations" (p.15), yet today's L2 classroom rarely includes pragmatic speech acts in curriculum, especially with regard to online language…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges
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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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Tseng, Chia-Ti Heather – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study aims to investigate EFL learners' perspectives for the effectiveness of content-based instruction in a cross-cultural communication course. The main objectives of this study are three-folds: (1) to examine students' perspectives regarding the effectiveness of content learning; (2) to examine students' perspectives regarding the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Cross Cultural Training
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Ogan, Amy; Aleven, Vincent; Jones, Christopher – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
Most successes in intelligent tutoring systems have come in well-defined domains like algebra or physics. We investigate how to support students in acquiring ill-defined skills of intercultural competence using an online environment that employs clips of feature films from a target culture. To test the effectiveness of a set of attention-focusing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Perspective Taking, Cultural Awareness