Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching: Fostering Communication for the Digital Age (Routledge Research in Language Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032344679 ISBN 13: 9781032344676

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book illustrates new virtual intercultural practices for language learning from primary to tertiary education and highlights the transversality of these practices throughout the language curriculum. The current English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) perspective sets the framework as a possible vector of cultural exchanges in a variety of contexts, and from which the different authors coming from Europe and all over the world present their studies.

The book deploys diverse educational exchanges within a wide range of technological tools and with varied approaches to the intercultural dimension in language learning. Through these virtual exchanges, different languages and educational cultures come together to create emerging communities of practice co-constructed for the limited time-space of the collaborative projects. This volume opens a dialogue with researchers from different backgrounds and theoretical and methodological perspectives as technology can no longer be apprehended without its purposeful human and semiotic meanings and, conversely, human and semiotic meanings can no longer be apprehended without Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Going beyond strict polarised views on the technology or humanistic approaches, this book presents a more nuanced, interrelated stance and will appeal to researchers, scholars, post graduate students, and teachers in applied linguistics, language learning and teaching, education, information studies, cultural studies, and intercultural communication.

About this title

About the Author

Anthippi Potolia is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Paris 8 – Saint-Denis, France.

Martine Derivry-Plard is a Professor in Applied linguistics at the University of Bordeaux, LACES, France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032344679
• ISBN 13: 9781032344676
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Potolia Anthippi, Derivry-Plard Martine