Asynchronous Online Networking: Cross Cultural Collaboration and the Learning of Foreign Languages

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Author(s): Kosmas Vlachos (University of Athens, Greece)and Sofia Papaefthimiou-Lytra (University of Athens, Greece)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 8
Source title: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence A. Tomei (Robert Morris University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch010

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Computer assisted language learning (CALL) has been at the forefront of foreign language education since the early 1980s. More recently researchers’ and practioners’ attention has centered on the sociocognitive approaches to CALL, that is, on the classroom practices and the electronic applications that make use of students’ interaction via the computer to promote the foreign language learning potential. This article addresses the issues of cross cultural collaboration and computer mediated communication (CMC) and explores how asynchronous online networking can foster a) the collaboration across partner classes and b) the cooperation of students within partner classrooms with the aim of enhancing the learning of English as a foreign language and in particular the development of language and culture awareness and mediation skills and ultimately intercultural communicative competence.

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