ERIC Number: ED613923
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov-30
Pages: 15
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Taking Care of Their Positive Online Face? Reasons and Strategy Development
Loizidou, Dora; Savlovska, Dina
Research-publishing.net, Paper presented at the 2019 EVALUATE Conference (León, Spain, Sep 2019)
This paper examines a peer virtual exchange project between students at the University of Cyprus and the University of Latvia. The main purpose of this project is to develop intercultural awareness. Through telecollaborative tasks, students are asked to interact in a common discussion space around elements related to their cultural values. The aim of this paper is to discuss students' strategies for these online exchanges. The hypothesis this paper seeks to examine is that students do not express themselves freely in the discussion forums in order to protect their personal and national image. We are thus interested in the public self-image of the students, known as 'face'. Our findings identified politeness strategies and we are interested in the main reasons for their acts towards positive and/ or negative face. [For the complete volume, see ED609298.]
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Universities, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Pragmatics, Self Concept, Speech Acts, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students), Russian, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Diaries, Teacher Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Disclosure, Undergraduate Students, Language Teachers
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Latvia; Cyprus
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