Enhancing Students' Intercultural Competence and Learner Autonomy via Facebook Telecollaboration

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Author(s): Ruby Vurdien (White Rose Language School, Spain)and Pasi Puranen (Aalto University, Finland)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Integrating Technology Into Contemporary Language Learning and Teaching
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Bin Zou (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)and Michael Thomas (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5140-9.ch012

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Literacy and Language Studies / Media & Communications

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This chapter reports on a Spanish-Finnish telecollaborative task-based study that was conducted with a view to exploring students' intercultural learning experience via Facebook employed as the educational platform. Nineteen Spanish and 17 Finnish students were afforded the opportunity to interact with each other in an authentic environment on the social networking site outside of class to elicit relevant information regarding each other's culture in terms of leisure activities and university education. Data analysis showed that the participants felt stimulated to take part in this novel learning experience and adopted a positive attitude towards their online interactions. They were able to manage their tasks without the assistance of their tutors, which encouraged them to become autonomous learners. Facebook can be considered an effective tool to foster intercultural competence development through successful exchange of pertinent information.

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