Dorothy M. Chun
Language and culture learning in higher education via telecollaboration
University of California, Santa Barbara
abstractthis article focuses ways researching process designing developing using telecollaboration also known online intercultural exchange facilitate learning linguistic intercultural communicative competence icc higher education courses different educational contexts united states europe asia although telecollaboration would intuitively seem ideal medium learning another language another culture extensive research shown learning process takes years faces many challenges paper situates research language culture learning within broader scope language intercultural education see pedagogies 82 report interview michael byram one originators concept icc multinational example integration telecollaborative networks european university language classes collaborating online intent project described addition telling case cultura model implemented united states europe asia demonstrates successful approach accompanying research telecollaboration language culture learning however also invisible factors unanticipated challenges teachers learners need understand order benefit telecollaborative environments examined end articlekeywords telecollaborationintercultural exchangelanguage learningculture learning additional informationnotes contributorsdorothy chundorothy chun professor applied linguistics education university california santa barbara research areas include l2 phonology intonation l2 reading vocabulary acquisition computerassisted language learning telecollaboration intercultural learning conducted studies cognitive process learning multimedia authored courseware language culture acquisition edits journal language learning technology