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Title |
Title of document |
Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Choices and Attitudes in an East-West Telecollaboration - Understanding Attitude in Intercultural Virtual Communication |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Carolin Fuchs; Northeastern University; |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Tsz Yan Lo; Hong Kong Glory Education & Technology Limited; Hong Kong |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Sneha Thapa; Nepalese community project coordinator; |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
linguistics |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
technology in language learning; virtual communication; telecollaboration; intercultural communication; L2 learner; attitude in language learning |
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Subject classification |
technology in language learning |
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Description |
Abstract |
In this chapter, the authors explore how participants engage in the initial stages of a telecollaboration, what linguistic and non-linguistic choices facilitated their negotiation processes, and how they rated their attitudes. Participants in this eight-week project included English majors in a graduate-level sociolinguistics core course at a public research institution in Hong Kong who telecollaborated with student teachers in a language teaching and new media elective course for EFL teacher education at a public education university in Germany. Telecollaborative teams used social media tools to complete three sequential tasks: 1) introductions and themed discussions on Facebook for comparing their educational contexts, 2) collaborative research and writing of a literature review on Google Docs, and 3) generation of recommendations for their respective educational contexts on a Wix website. These data were a subset from a broader ethnographic analysis of these learners, and results from four focus teams were analyzed. Triangulation includes social media interactions on Facebook and pre-/post-questionnaires. Findings indicate that, regardless of task performance, all focus team made a range of choices that facilitated team negotiations such as accommodating propositions, emoticon use, or constructive communication styles. In contrast, L1 use, aggressive communication style, or pragmatic presupposition were hindering factors. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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27-Feb-2020 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/books/article/view/39223 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.39223 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Understanding Attitude in Intercultural Virtual Communication |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |