Abstract
The TILA project originated from the need to explore whether and how telecollaboration affects language learning processes for communication, intercultural understanding and motivation of youngsters learning foreign languages at secondary schools and to empower teachers to pioneer meaningful pedagogical innovation in the curriculum of foreign languages at secondary schools. In the 2,5 year lasting project 837 pupils, 300 student teachers and 48 teachers participated in telecollaboration exchanges. The results show that task-based telecollaboration can be successfully integrated in the foreign language curriculum by blending different pedagogical activities. These exchanges can contribute to enhance pupils’ communicative competence, intercultural awareness and motivation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Critical CALL. |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy |
Editors | Francesca Helm, Linda Bradley, Marta Guarda, Sylvie Thouësny |
Publisher | Research Publishing Net |
Pages | 268-273 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-908416-29-2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-908416-28-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Dec 2015 |
Keywords
- call, telecollaboration, intercultural competence, motivation
- multimodal interaction
- teacher training
- tasks