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Foreign Language Communication in Virtual Exchanges

International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Virtual exchange (VE) has grown out of telecollaboration, which originated in the language-teaching field, and has now expanded to all areas of knowledge as a collaborative methodology to enhance learning and fostering soft skills and intercultural ...
A. C. B. Salomão
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The role of intercultural virtual exchanges in global citizenship development

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This study examines the impact of Virtual Exchange (VE) on the development of global citizenship competences. One hundred and six participants from universities in Mexico, Poland, Spain, and the USA took part in a 6-week synchronous VE.
Chesla Ann Lenkaitis, Barbara Loranc-Paszylk   +1 more
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The effects of virtual exchanges on oral skills and motivation

Language Learning & Technology, 2020
The present study aims to assess the benefits of participating in a virtual language exchange (VE) for practicing oral skills with native speakers by measuring learners’ motivation to learn the language, communicate, and collaborate.
Laia Canals
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Multimodal representation in virtual exchange: A social semiotic approach to critical digital literacy

Language Learning & Technology, 2023
For agentive and influential involvement in online communities, language learners and teachers need to develop critical digital literacy (CDL), conceptualized by Darvin (2017) as an awareness of “how meanings are represented in ways that maintain and ...
M. Satar, Mirjam Hauck, Zeynep Bilki
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Virtual wealth protection through virtual money exchange

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2011
This article presents pioneering research on virtual money exchange (VMX) to protect the wealth generated in virtual worlds. This goal is realized by designing and implementing a VMX system through which virtual money exchange rates between virtual worlds are generated based on a redistribution strategy.
Jingzhi Guo, Angelina Chow, Rolf T. Wigand   +2 more
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Virtual exchanges for intercultural communication development: Using can-do statements for ICC self-assessment

, 2020
In a 6-week synchronous virtual exchange, 106 participants self-assessed themselves on proficiency benchmarks and performance indicators before and after the exchange by answering open-ended questions and utilizing Can-Do Statements for Intercultural ...
Chesla Ann Lenkaitis
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Emerging trends in telecollaboration and virtual exchange: a bibliometric study

Educause Review, 2021
As physical mobility finds itself impeded by the COVID-19 crisis, the world witnesses the potential of technology for connecting students who are physically distanced inside and cross-borders.
M. Barbosa, Luana Ferreira-Lopes
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Facilitating global citizenship development in lingua franca virtual exchanges

Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article investigates how engaging students to discuss topics that reflect their ideologies in lingua franca (LF) virtual exchanges can help facilitate global citizenship development.
Chesla Ann Lenkaitis, Barbara Loranc-Paszylk   +1 more
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Internationalization At Home Through Virtual Exchange

2023
In this chapter Beelen and Jones's definition of IaH is adopted: Internationalization at Home is the purposeful integration of international and intercultural dimensions into the formal and informal curriculum for all students within domestic learning environments.
Helm F., Guth S.
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Decoding leadership to leverage employee engagement in virtual teams

The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 2021
Purpose Virtual teams are characterized by short social exchanges and a lack of para-verbal and non-verbal communication. This poses several challenges to virtual leaders.
Prapti Mutha, M. Srivastava
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