Second Language Teaching and Learning through Virtual Exchange

Virtual exchanges provide language learners with a unique opportunity to develop their target language skills, support inter-cultural exchange, and afford teacher candidates space to hone their teaching craft. The research presented in this volume investigates the role of virtual exchanges as both a teaching tool to support second language acquisition and a space for second language development. Practitioners obtain guidance on the different types of exchanges that currently exist and on the outcome of those exchanges so that they can make informed decisions on whether to include this type of program in their language teaching and learning classrooms. To this end, this edited volume contains chapters that describe individual virtual exchanges along with results of research done on each exchange to show how the exchange supported specific second language teaching and learning goals.

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Contenidos

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction 

LANGUAGE AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE
Chapter 1 
Learning-oriented assessment in an international virtual exchange
Paul Wicking 

Chapter 2
From demotivation to Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC): Japanese university learner journeys in the International Virtual ExchangeProject (IVEProject)
Eucharia Donnery

Chapter 3 
Annotating appraisal in a mobile telecollaboration project: A linguist
Alberto Andujar and Paloma Mármol Trapote

Chapter 4 
Learner appropriation of genre in a US-China virtual exchange
Carolin Fuchs, Bruce Tung and Bill Snyder

Chapter 5 
?Zoom? in and speak out: Virtual exchange in language learning
Kaishan Kong

CULTURE AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE
Chapter 6 
Developing intercultural communicative competence in ESP contexts through virtual exchange: An ecological perspective
Anna Nicolaou and Ana Sevilla-Pavón

Chapter 7 
Video exchange telecollaboration: Towards developing interculturality in EFL environments
Martin Parsons, Mikel Garant and Elizaveta Shikhova

Chapter 8 
Taking action in a virtual exchange with Brazilian and U.S. students
Eduardo Viana da Silva and Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão

Chapter 9 
Tackling problems, finding solutions: Creativity and collaboration in crosscultural virtual exchange during a pandemic
Clara Bauler, Devin Thornburg, Óscar Ceballos, Carlos Pineda, Esther Kogan and Pirjo Sorri

TEACHER EDUCATION AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE
Chapter 10 
Integrating the United Nations? Sustainable Development Goals into a teacher preparation program: Developing content for virtual exchanges
Chesla Ann Lenkaitis

Chapter 11 
Enhancing ELLs? understanding through the use of examples, questions, and native language connections during virtual exchange
Shannon M. Hilliker and Devindi Samarakkody

Chapter 12 
Developing linguistically responsive pedagogy among K-12 mainstream teacher candidates through virtual exchange
Alexandra Laletina, Anna Zhiganova and Elena Gritsenko

Chapter 13 
Virtual exchange to enhance English language teacher trainees? professional development ? insights from a Czech- Polish project
Blanka Babická, Barbara Loranc-Paszylk and Josef Nevaril

Conclusion

Index