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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
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1. Development of
intercultural competence
in students of secondary
school: an eTwinning
project of
telecollaboration
PhD, UAM, Madrid
e Tw i n n i n g A n n u a l C o n f e r e n c e -
M a l t a 2 0 1 7
E s t í b a l i z d e M i g u e l Va l l é s , E s p a ñ a
Page 1
3. Page 3
“Authors such Schulz Lalande, Dykstra, Zimmer
and James (2005) have suggested that it is
through intercultural competence that individuals
manage to function effectively and successfully
w i t h i n t h e i r c u l t u r e a n d w i t h i n o t h e r
cultures” (Vinagre, 2016)
4. Collaboration on line has shown its potential to
stimulate students’ intercultural competence
(Liaw, 2006; Shenker, 2012; Vinagre, 2016 &
Vogt, 2006).
Page 4
5. Page 5
Intercultural awarness is one of the less
assessed key competence for life-long
learning (the European Comission’s report on
Education and Training, 2010)
6. A contribu+on to the field (Liaw, 2006; O’Dowd, 2003;
Schenker, 2012; Vinagre, 2016 and Vogt, 2006) through
the findings of a virtual exchange with:
- a large number of par+cipants;
- French as a Foreign Language;
- an eTwinning model;
- a combina+on of instruments
Objec&ve 1:
Analyse the students’ development of ICC
in an eTwinning project
Page 6
8. eTwinning project:
Prêts pour un Erasmus
0
0,5
1
1,5
2
2,5
3
3,5
4
4,5
Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
Page 8
Secondary Schools involved: Juan de Mairena,
Madrid, Spain, and Georges Imbert, Sarre-Union,
France.
Period of time: one semester of the academic
year 2015-2016.
40 participants: 18 French students / 21 Spanish
students
9. Page 9
How did they work?
Students worked together in small groups in the
TwinSpace
Where have they interacted?
In discussion forums
What have they done?
Exchange of personal and socio-cultural
information and corrections about each other’s
language (Spanish and French)
11. Byram’s (2000:4) model of ICC
Page 11
Category A. Interest in knowing other people’s
way of life and introducing one’s own culture to
others
Category B. Ability to change perspective
Category C. Knowledge about one’s own and
others’ culture for intercultural communication
Category D. Knowledge about the intercultural
communication process
Definition ICC:
“the ability to relate to and communicate with
people who speak a different language and live
in a different cultural context”
Byram (1997)
13. Page 13
Results of the French and the Spanish students’
entries in the e-forums, blogs and journals by
category
The category B “ability to change perspective”
was the one with the least number of entries.
14. Conclusions
Page 14
RQ1: What traces of the different categories of
Byram’s (1997;2000) model of ICC were found in an
online exchange among secondary school students
who collaborated in an e-Twinning project?
After analysing the blogs, e-forums and
journals we found traces of all the ICC
categories.
The number of evidences changes
reasonably according to the task developed
in each of the instruments used.
15. Page 15
Category A (1672, 64,18%). Forums (1628, 62,5%) and
journals (34, 1,3%).
Category C (888, 34,09%). Forums (832, 31,9%) and
blogs (51,2%).
Category D (30, 1,15% ). Journals
Category B (15, 0,58%). Blogs
RQ2: If the answer to the first research question is
affirmative, which categories were more or less
present in the student’s production?
16. O’Dowd (2003):
• there are evidences of the Category B “ability to change
perspective”, Byram’s (1997) model of ICC
Page 16
Vogt (2006):
• İt is NOT possible to measure attitudes with the instruments
described.
Liaw (2006):
• this type of learning environment is conducive to the
development of knowledge and attitudes of intercultural
competence, but not necessarily to the development of
empathy and (meta)intercultural skills
Shenker (2012):
• we found traces of the ICC objectives of Byram’s (1997;2000)
model of ICC
Vinagre (2016):
• a small number of evidence from Category D and almost none
from Category B
RQ3: Is there a difference between the findings
from this research and the ones in previous
studies (Liaw, 2006; O’Dowd,2003; Shenker,2012;
Vinagre, 2016 & Vogt, 2006)?
17. Page 17
The findings of this research
will be part of the
TELNETCOM project
(UAM, Madrid)
18. Page 18
Thank you very much for
listening
#eTwPrizes17
@estibaliz43
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