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New directions in telecollaborative research and practice: selected papers from the second conference on
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Edited by Sake Jager, Malgorzata Kurek, and Breffni O’Rourke

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xxv Preface
Breffni O’Rourke

1 New directions in telecollaborative research and practice: introduction

Sake Jager, Malgorzata Kurek, and Breffni O’Rourke

Section 1. Keynote papers

19 Telecollaboration and student mobility for language learning
Celeste Kinginger

31 A task is a task is a task is a task… or is it?

Researching telecollaborative teacher competence development –
the need for more qualitative research
Andreas Müller-Hartmann

45 Learner autonomy and telecollaborative language learning

David Little

Section 2. Telecollaboration in support of culture

and language-oriented education
59 Developing intercultural communicative competence
across the Americas
Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco, Oscar Mora, and Andrea Serna Collazos

69 CHILCAN: a Chilean-Canadian intercultural telecollaborative

language exchange
Constanza Rojas-Primus

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77 Multifaceted dimensions of telecollaboration through English

as a Lingua Franca (ELF): Paris-Valladolid intercultural
telecollaboration project
Paloma Castro and Martine Derivry-Plard

83 Student perspectives on intercultural learning from an online teacher

education partnership
Shannon Sauro

89 Blogging as a tool for intercultural learning

in a telecollaborative study
Se Jeong Yang

97 Intergenerational telecollaboration: what risks for what rewards?

Erica Johnson

105 Telecollaboration, challenges and oppportunities

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113 Exploring telecollaboration through the lens of university students:

a Spanish-Cypriot telecollaborative exchange
Anna Nicolaou and Ana Sevilla-Pavón

121 A comparison of telecollaborative classes between Japan

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Collaboration (APEC) project
Yoshihiko Shimizu, Dwayne Pack, Mikio Kano, Hiroyuki Okazaki,
and Hiroto Yamamura

Section 3. Training teachers

through telecollaboration
131 Incorporating cross-cultural videoconferencing
to enhance Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
at the tertiary level
Barbara Loranc-Paszylk

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Exploring telecollaboration through the lens
of university students: a Spanish-Cypriot
telecollaborative exchange

Anna Nicolaou1 and Ana Sevilla-Pavón2

Abstract

T his paper examines university students’ views about a Cypriot-

Spanish telecollaboration project through which participants
used Google+ Communities for intercultural exchange over the
course of one semester. The project was established through the
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the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the University
of Valencia (UV). The telecollaboration tasks and activities were
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The project aimed at developing students’ cultural awareness and
competence learning, as well as at enhancing their motivation to
learn English at university level. This paper outlines the pedagogical
goals of the project, the design of tasks, the communication modes,
the digital tools used for interaction and task completion, and the
targeted competences. Using qualitative data through focus groups
interviews with the students who participated in the project, the paper
aims at exploring telecollaboration from the student experience
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intercultural exchanges.

Keywords: telecollaboration, design-based research, students’ views.

1. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus; anna.nicolaou@cut.ac.cy

2. Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain; Ana.M.Sevilla@uv.es

How to cite this chapter: Nicolaou, A., & Sevilla-Pavón, A. (2016). Exploring telecollaboration through the lens of
university students: a Spanish-Cypriot telecollaborative exchange. In S. Jager, M. Kurek & B. O’Rourke (Eds), New
directions in telecollaborative research and practice: selected papers from the second conference on telecollaboration in
higher education (pp. 113-119). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.telecollab2016.497

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