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Online Intercultural EXCHANGE and Language Education

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Language, Education and Technology

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Online intercultural exchange (OIE), also referred to as telecollaboration or virtual exchange, refers to the engagement of groups of students in online intercultural interaction and collaboration with partners from other cultural contexts or geographical locations under the guidance of educators and/or expert facilitators. This chapter begins by examining the origins of this activity and outlines the main types of OIE that are currently being employed in foreign language learning contexts. It then moves on to discuss new models of online interaction and exchange and reviews some of the problems that educators have encountered in its application in the classroom.

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O’Dowd, R. (2017). Online Intercultural EXCHANGE and Language Education. In: Thorne, S., May, S. (eds) Language, Education and Technology. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02328-1_17-1

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