Virtual Intercultural Learning in Action

Connected Classrooms
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-20079-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics

This volume moves beyond assumptions that virtual intercultural exchange is inherently transformative to examine what actually happens when students, teachers, technologies, institutions, and communities interact across cultural and geographical boundaries.

Drawing on diverse projects in universities and schools across Asia and Europe, the chapters explore how virtual collaboration can foster intercultural competence, global citizenship, empathy, agency, creativity, and transversal skills, while also drawing attention to possible limitations arising from the conditions under which the projects are designed and implemented. Collectively, the studies show that intercultural learning in virtual exchanges depends on task design which includes sustained reflection, sustained critical reflection on differences, and an examination of power and identity. This volume showcases grounded, critical, and deeply human accounts of virtual intercultural learning in practice.

A valuable resource for researchers and educational practitioners working in the field of TESOL and intercultural communication.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kiss, Tamas

Boon Kheng, Nicholas Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Is virtual intercultural exchange the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’?  2. Gen Z’s conceptualization of culture: Implications for Virtual Intercultural Exchange  3. Developing Transversal Skills In An International Project For University Students  4. ‘Taught me a lot about teamwork and cooperation’: Assessing the Impact of a Hungarian-Malaysian Intercultural Video Exchange Project  5. Intercultural Curiosity and Discovery: Mapping Student Questions Through a Virtual Intercultural Exchange Programme 6. A Case Study of Virtual Student Exchanges Between Southeast Asia and South Korea 7. Virtual Exchange In Rural Malaysia: Developing Language And Intercultural Competence 8. Designing a Kuching–Osaka Online Cultural Exchange: A Pedagogical Intervention in a Malaysian Secondary English Classroom  9. Reciprocal Pedagogy and Curriculum Learning: Exploring the NIE-HKU Alliance in Cultivating Intercultural Competences 10. Virtual Exchange in Business Higher Education: A Thai–Polish Case Study  11. Integrating Virtual Exchange into an Intercultural Communication Course: A Hungarian–Malaysian Case Study

Über Autor(innen)

Tamas Kiss is a Professor at Sunway University, Centre for English Language Studies, and an Honorary Professor at Nottingham University, Malaysia. His research mostly focuses on intercultural communication, language teaching materials, and motivation. He is an experienced teacher educator who has worked with language teachers in more than 20 countries.

Nicholas Lee Boon Kheng is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for English Language Studies at Sunway University, Malaysia. He is a passionate educator with an interest in Systems Thinking, Teacher Practice, intercultural communication and how AI is used in language education.