Virtual exchange in teacher education: focus on L2 writing

2022-01-01
Hilliker, Shannon M.
Yol, Özge
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Virtual exchange, as a global social practice, provides language teacher candidates with opportunities to connect their global peers and language learners. Integrated into teacher education, virtual exchange practices enhance teacher candidates' professional and pedagogical knowledge and practices. This study details a virtual exchange program between TESOL teacher candidates in Poland and the US and examines the transformations in teacher candidates' understanding and perspectives of theories and pedagogies of L2 writing. The findings of this single case indicate that virtual exchange is a strategy that can have productive outcomes that are worthy of further investigation as a means of broadening TESOL teachers' knowledge and pedagogies of L2 writing.
virtual exchange, L2 writing, teacher candidates, TESOL, LANGUAGE, CULTURE
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96992
ELT JOURNAL
Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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S. M. Hilliker and Ö. Yol, “Virtual exchange in teacher education: focus on L2 writing,” ELT JOURNAL, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 11–19, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/96992.
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