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A transnational model of virtual exchange for global citizenship education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2019
Abstract
Virtual exchange is a well-known pedagogical approach in foreign language (FL) education which involves engaging classes in online intercultural collaboration projects with international partners as an integrated part of their educational programmes. This paper begins by reviewing e-tandem and telecollaborative approaches to virtual exchange which are currently being used extensively in FL education and presents two case studies which illustrate the common learning outcomes and limitations of such approaches. I then propose an alternative model of virtual exchange which maintains many of the key characteristics of earlier approaches but which incorporates the principles of global citizenship education and which moves away from bilingual–bicultural approaches. I conclude by outlining the main characteristics of this model and presenting some examples of how this approach could be put into practice.
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Revised version of a plenary address given at the Sixth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence – Intercultural Competence and Mobility: Virtual and Physical. University of Arizona, USA, 25–28 January 2018.
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