This document discusses telecollaboration, which involves groups of students collaborating online with partner classes from other cultures or locations under educator guidance. It defines telecollaboration as engaging students in online intercultural interaction and collaboration. The document also notes that research shows goal-oriented, task-based interactions lead to more negotiation of meaning and learner development than usual conversation.

2. • Rationale for project
• Project description
• Theoretical background (Flo presentation)
• Results from questionnaires
• Evidence from portfolios
• Teacher’s notes
• Limitations, conclusions and
recommendations

3. What is Telecollaboration?
The engagement of groups of students in online
intercultural interaction and collaboration with
partner classes from other cultural contexts or
geographical locations, under the guidance of
educators and/or expert facilitators
(Robert O’Dowd, 2014)

4. • “Many of the studies of network-based
interaction report on activities in which large
groups of students discuss their opinions
about current affairs, world politics… – in
short, conversation type activities…However
research has proven that …the negotiation of
meaning and the resultant learner
modifications are much more prevalent in
goal-oriented, task-based interaction than in
usual conversation (Pellettieri, 2000: 64).”