Project-Based Learning to Develop Intercultural Communicative Competence in Virtual Exchange Contexts

IF 0.7 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.4018/ijcallt.307059

A. Peraza, Yumiko Furumura

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Abstract

Higher education requires a different approach to teaching and learning since modern-day students no longer have the same learning needs as they had in the past. Project-based learning (PBL) is an active and dynamic approach to language teaching that makes it possible for the language students to gain transferable and applicable knowledge, skills and insights, and it also contributes to support and enhance virtual exchanges (VE), especially when it comes to developing intercultural communicative competence and using digital technologies. This paper is aimed at showing the results of using PBL in VE contexts to develop intercultural communicative competence of Costa Rican and Japanese EFL students by implementing some ideas from the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (FRCDC). The results suggest that implementing PBL in VE contexts to develop intercultural communicative competence of Costa Rican and Japanese EFL students had an impact on the participants’ skills, values, attitudes, and knowledge and critical understanding.

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基于项目的学习在虚拟交流环境中培养跨文化交际能力

高等教育需要一种不同的教学方法，因为现代学生不再像过去那样有同样的学习需求。项目式学习(PBL)是一种积极、动态的语言教学方法，它使语言学生获得可转移和适用的知识、技能和见解成为可能，它也有助于支持和加强虚拟交流(VE)，特别是在发展跨文化交际能力和使用数字技术方面。本文旨在通过实施欧洲委员会民主文化能力参考框架(FRCDC)中的一些想法，展示在VE环境中使用PBL来培养哥斯达黎加和日本英语学生的跨文化交际能力的结果。结果表明，在VE情境下实施PBL以培养哥斯达黎加和日本英语学生的跨文化交际能力对参与者的技能、价值观、态度、知识和批判性理解产生了影响。

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International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The mission of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) is to publish research, theory, and conceptually-based papers that address the use and impact of and innovations in education technologies in advancing foreign/second language learning and teaching. This journal expands on the principles, theories, designs, discussion, and implementations of computer-assisted language learning. In addition to original research papers and submissions on theory and concept development and systematic reports of practice, this journal welcomes theory-based CALL-related book and software/application reviews.