Draft:Intercultural Telecollaboration

The intercultural telecollaboration (IC), also known as virtual exchange or online international exchange (OIE) is an experiential learning tool used in the development of cultural competence, including intercultural communication, cultural sensitivity and cultural agility. It is “generally understood to be internet-based intercultural exchange between people of different cultural/national backgrounds, set up in an institutional context with the aim of developing both language skills and intercultural communicative competence (as defined by Byram, 1997) through structured tasks”.:[1][2][3] Such exchanges are typically “bilateral, bilingual, bicultural exchanges lasting more or less one semester”. [4]

  1. ^ Byram, M. (1997). Revisited. Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/doi:10.21832/9781800410251.
  2. ^ Godwin-Jones, R. (2019). Telecollaboration as an approach to developing intercultural communication competence. Language Learning & Technology, 23(3), 8–28.
  3. ^ Guth, S., & Helm, F. (2010). Telecollaboration 2.0: Language, Literacies and Intercultural Learning in the 21st Century. Peter Lang. .
  4. ^ Helm, F. (2015). The Practices and Challenges of Telecollaboration in Higher Education in Europe. Language Learning & Technology, 19(2), 197–217.

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