Fostering Critical Cultural Awareness among Prospective Teachers of English via Virtual Exchange Project

Autor/inn/en	Öztürk, Samed Yasin; Yangin Eksi, Gonca
Titel	Fostering Critical Cultural Awareness among Prospective Teachers of English via Virtual Exchange Project
Quelle	10 (2022) 1, S.491-502 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Öztürk, Samed Yasin) ORCID (Yangin Eksi, Gonca)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2149-4622
Schlagwörter	Cultural Awareness; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Language Teachers; Lesson Plans; Intercultural Communication; Communicative Competence (Languages); Foreign Countries; Computer Mediated Communication; Preservice Teachers; Teacher Education Programs; Exchange Programs; Teaching Methods; Student Attitudes; Computer Simulation; Turkey; Germany; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lesson planning; Unterrichtsplanung; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Ausland; Computerkonferenz; Exchange programme; Exchange program; Exchange programmes; Austauschprogramm; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Türkei; Deutschland
Abstract	This study aimed to explore critical cultural awareness improvement of prospective teachers with a transnational virtual exchange project. Within the scope of this study, prospective teachers of English studying at English Language Teaching (ELT) department in Turkey attended a virtual exchange project that was organized with other prospective teachers of English from Germany and Israel. The prospective teachers weekly interacted with each other via online meetings, and they collaborated on assigned tasks to come up with a final product, which is an English teaching lesson plan. The research was designed as a qualitative study and the data were analyzed according to the the principles of directed qualitative content analysis. Directed qualitative content analysis is used when researchers start with a theory to code the qualitative data. In this study, Byram's (1997) framework was used as a theory to direct analysis of the data. The participants' weekly interactions were transcribed verbatim and were analyzed according to the principles of qualitative content analysis and Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) framework's critical cultural awareness dimension. The analysis of the data revealed that the prospective teachers' critical cultural awareness was significantly improved. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01