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Villalobos-Buehner, María – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This study measured changes in cultural awareness levels between two groups of US students in their third semester of a Spanish class. One group (experimental group) collaborated via Skype with a group of English language learners from a Colombian university and the other group (control group) did not. The experimental group met seven times during…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Ceo-DiFrancesco, Diane; Mora, Oscar; Collazos, Andrea Serna – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Foreign language telecollaboration offers innovations to enhance language instruction. Previous research has cited its use to develop linguistic skills and intercultural competence (Belz, 2003; Blake, 2013; Chun, 2015; O'Dowd, 2000; Schenker, 2014). This article reports preliminary outcomes of a pedagogical project which leveraged…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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O'Keefe, jean; Feinberg, Joseph – Journal of International Social Studies, 2013
In this qualitative case study, we explored the knowledge and perceptions of service-learning held by a diverse group of 22 international teachers. Through focus group interviews, we found that the majority of participants desired to implement service-learning in their countries, and they supported the idea of mandatory service-learning. The…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Case Studies