1st Edition

Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching Fostering Communication for the Digital Age

Edited By Anthippi Potolia, Martine Derivry-Plard Copyright 2023
230 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book illustrates new virtual intercultural practices for language learning from primary to tertiary education and highlights the transversality of these practices throughout the language curriculum. The current English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) perspective sets the framework as a possible vector of cultural exchanges in a variety of contexts, and from which the different authors coming from... Read more

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Acknowledgements

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Preface

Martine Derivry-Plard, Anthippi Potolia

Chapter 1

Research perspectives on virtual intercultural exchange in language education

Richard Kern, Anthony J. Liddicoat, and Geneviève Zarate

Chapter 2

Going beyond these virtual walls: A retrospective of learning culture through language in intercultural telecollaboration

Kathryn English

Chapter 3

Conceptualisation of a language task design model for mental acceptance

Jozef Colpaert and Evelyne Spruyt

Chapter 4

Self-regulation and intercultural competence: Task analysis in a self-directed telecollaboration

Joshua N. W. Gray

Chapter 5

Immersive virtual reality: Exploring possibilities for virtual exchange

Sabela Melchor-Couto and Borja Herrera

Chapter 6

Virtual exchanges among primary-education pupils: Insights into a new arena

Barry Pennock-Speck and Begoña Clavel-Arroitia

Chapter 7

Communication, metacommunication and intercultural effectiveness in virtual exchange: The Evaluate project

Tim Lewis, Bart Rienties, and Irina Rets

Chapter 8

Intercultural telecollaboration for teacher education across three continents: Insights from experience journals

Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão, Paloma Castro-Prieto, Sa-hui Fan, and Martine Derivry-Plard

Conclusion: Looking back, moving forward

Martine Derivry-Plard and Anthippi Potolia

Biography

Anthippi Potolia is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Paris 8 – Saint-Denis, France.

Martine Derivry-Plard is a Professor in Applied linguistics at the University of Bordeaux, LACES, France.

“Through the wide range of technological configurations, pedagogical formats, spatialities, temporalities, target audiences and languages-cultures that it reports on, the book provides a representative snapshot of what telecollaboration can bring for the purposes of language development, openness to the world, professional development and training in the current context.”

- Cédric Brudermann is Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching at Sorbonne Université and a member of the CeLiSo research unit.