Enhancing Language and Cross-Cultural Competence through Telecollaboration

Autor/inn/en	Casañ-Pitarch, Ricardo; Candel-Mora, Miguel Ángel; Carrió-Pastor, Maria Luisa; Demydenko, Olga; Tikan, Iana
Titel	Enhancing Language and Cross-Cultural Competence through Telecollaboration
Quelle	In: Advanced Education, (2020) 16, S.78-87 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2409-3351
Schlagwörter	Cultural Awareness; Computer Mediated Communication; Cooperative Learning; Student Projects; Language Skills; Second Language Learning; Foreign Countries; Communicative Competence (Languages); English (Second Language); Ukraine; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Computerkonferenz; Kooperatives Lernen; Schulprojekt; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Ausland; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Spanien
Abstract	This paper presents an experiment which focused on determining if a telecollaborative project work would help enhance students' foreign language skills and cross-cultural competence. Students from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the Polytechnic University of Valencia worked together during the fall term in 2020, in which 56 Ukrainian and Spanish students were engaged in a telecollaborative programme -- 32 were master degree students at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, whereas the remaining 24 were bachelor engineering students at Polytechnic University of Valencia. Our students were engaged in a project work which consisted in the creation of a blog on the topic 'Sustainable Development Today'. The tools used in this project were mostly Google applications such as Classroom, Hangouts, Blogger, Drive, and Docs. In order to measure their progress, students took pre-tests before the project started and a post-test after its completion. These tests focused on assessing learners' language competence in English and also their cross-cultural competence. The language test used was designed by Cambridge University Press, whereas the cross-cultural test had been created by the Organizational Behavior Group (Piasentin, 2012). The latter focused on learners' willingness to engage, cognitive flexibility and openness, emotional regulation, tolerance of uncertainty, self-efficacy, and ethnocultural empathy. As expected, the students who participated in this virtual exchange programme enhanced their competence on both foreign language cross-cultural competences by taking an active part in the telecollaborative project work. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. 37 Peremohy Avenue, Building 7 Office 718, Kyiv 03056, Ukraine. Tel: +38-044-204-85-37; e-mail: ae.fl.kpi@gmail.com; Web site: https://kpi.ua/en
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01