Rio De Janeiro to Claremont: Promoting Intercultural Competence through Student-Driven Online Intercultural Exchanges

Autor/inn/en	Aristizábal, Juanita C.; Welch, Patrick McDermott
Titel	Rio De Janeiro to Claremont: Promoting Intercultural Competence through Student-Driven Online Intercultural Exchanges
Quelle	In: Hispania, 100 (2017) 2, S.225-238 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2133
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Computer Mediated Communication; Teaching Assistants; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Computer Simulation; Communities of Practice; Qualitative Research; Pilot Projects; Portuguese; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Exchange Programs; Student Motivation; Program Descriptions; Federal Legislation; Federal Programs; International Educational Exchange; Cooperative Learning; Cultural Awareness; Brazil; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computerkonferenz; Minderheitensprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Community; Qualitative Forschung; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Portugiesischunterricht; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Exchange programme; Exchange program; Exchange programmes; Austauschprogramm; Schulische Motivation; Bundesrecht; Internationaler Austausch; Kooperatives Lernen; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Brasilien; Kalifornien
Abstract	This article describes the process by which the authors created a Virtual Learning Community for cultural and linguistic exchange between college students of Portuguese in the United States and undergraduate and graduate students of English in Brazil. In addition to describing the way the so-called tandem model for telecollaboration was adapted to students' academic contexts and motivations, the article addresses the process, challenges, and some of the outcomes of the project's pilot using qualitative data collected before, during, and after the program. A possibility raised by this pilot is that as cultural ambassadors of the United States assisting in the teaching of English as a foreign language in sixty-nine countries, Fulbright English teaching assistants are potential partners for similar exchanges involving both commonly and less commonly taught languages in the United States. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Inc. 900 Ladd Road, Walled Lake, MI 48390. Tel: 248-960-2180; Fax: 248-960-9570; e-mail: AATSPoffice@aatsp.org; Web site: http://www.aatsp.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01