The role of telecollaboration in language and intercultural learning: A synthesis of studies published between 2010 and 2015

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2018-09-01

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Çiftçi, Emrullah Yasin
Savaş, Perihan

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In today's globalized world, learning languages and developing intercultural skills are of paramount importance due to dynamic and complex global interdependencies. However, not every language student around the world has a chance to engage in face-to-face intercultural communication with people from different backgrounds. Telecollaboration offers a worthwhile opportunity by creating digital environments for language learners to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds. This qualitative meta-synthesis therefore aimed to investigate the research papers that were published between 2010 and 2015 in respect to language and intercultural learning within telecollaborative environments. Besides reporting emerging research trends among the studies, this synthesis study scrutinized recent emerging issues and observable patterns under five main themes: (1) the participants' overall views on their telecollaborative experiences, (2) language learning through tele-collaboration, (3) intercultural learning through telecollaboration, (4) the challenges experienced within the telecollaborative projects, and (5) the needs for further effective telecollaboration. Finally, this study synthesizes key emerging issues in telecollaborative projects and offers further research and practice directions in line with the current observable patterns.

Subject Keywords

Telecollaboration, Intercultural communication, Intercultural competence, Online inter cultural exchange, Intercultural language learning

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30397

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RECALL

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/s0958344017000313

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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E. Y. Çiftçi and P. Savaş, “The role of telecollaboration in language and intercultural learning: A synthesis of studies published between 2010 and 2015,” RECALL, pp. 278–298, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30397.