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Intercultural Learning in Pre-mobility Teletandem

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Our study focuses on a teletandem (Telles) environment for pre-mobility language and intercultural development. The telecollaborations’ main pedagogical objective was the development of the intercultural competence with a shift from more savoir-based culturalist development (Abdallah-Pretceille and Porcher) to a development in terms of savoir-apprendre (Byram and Zarate). This aim was pursued by the design of six teletandem tasks. Moreover, to enable students to reflect on their learning and to share their learning strategies and reflections, within the telecollaborations we set up two collective reflective blogs (Cappellini, “Du carnet”) where the students had to post an entry after each teletandem session. By analyzing the students’ posts in these blogs, we observe convergence and divergence between the pedagogical intentions of the telecollaboration designers (or task-as-workplan, “Divergent perceptions”) and the actual outcomes (or task-as-process). Finally, we draw some pedagogical suggestions on how to improve task design for autonomous intercultural learning.

Source: Recherche et pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité

DOI: 10.4000/apliut.7449

Authors: Marco Cappellini, Nicola Macré

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Savoirs, Textes, Langage

Language: English

Topic: French Language Learning Methods

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4214717434

FWCI: 2.304

Cites: 27

Cited by: 9

Related to: 10