An overview of online intercultural exchange in the Australian context
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2016
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Tudini, V.
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O'Dowd, R.
Lewis, T.
Lewis, T.
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Source details - Title: Online intercultural exchange: policy pedagogy practice, 2016 / O'Dowd, R., Lewis, T. (ed./s), Ch.6, pp.111-129
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This chapter provides a snapshot of telecollaboration or OIE initiatives in the Australian higher education context, in what was once one of the most isolated island continent countries in the world. In the teaching of foreign languages, OIE potentially builds bridges across the globe by providing opportunities for interaction with human beings through a computer, rather than interaction with computers (Warschauer, 2003), without the need to leave one’s own country physically. This study explores how Australian university foreign language (other than English) educators have taken advantage of OIE or telecollaboration opportunities, as described by Belz (2003): the engagement of groups of students in online intercultural interaction and collaboration with partner classes from other cultural contexts or geographical locations, under the guidance of educators and/or expert facilitators. (p. 2)
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Copyright 2016 Taylor & Francis