Overview

Virtual exchange has experienced a significant development over the last twenty years. Given its multiple benefits, this innovative pedagogy has attracted instructors and researchers from all over the world who are interested in integrating this practice into their classrooms. However, implementing virtual exchange is not without its challenges, and attaining sustained collaborative interaction remains one of those challenges. To support such interaction, interpersonal factors such as identity, rapport, and trust are essential. The development of these factors relies heavily on the participants' attitudes and how they choose to reflect them in their intercultural dialogue. Given the scarcity of studies that investigate the impact of students' attitudes and emotions in telecollaborative encounters, this volume aims to analyze the use of attitudinal resources in virtual interaction. By examining a range of educational settings, applying different theoretical approaches, presenting a variety of methodologies, and using different tools, the writers in this volume provide a rich picture of how participants can contribute to creating third spaces in which they feel safe exploring diversity and identity, and engaging with difference. By presenting different scenarios, technologies, and tasks, Understanding Attitude in Intercultural Virtual Communication provides insights into the factors that affect students' dynamics in these exchanges. These contributions will encourage readers to continue examining attitude in the ever-growing multimodal telecollaborative world.

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Author:   Ana Oskoz ,  Margarita Vinagre
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781781799376

ISBN 10:   1781799377
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   03 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Margarita Vinagre and Ana Oskoz Chapter 1: Reconsidering attitude as a relational, negotiated sociocognitive construct Zsuzsana Abrams (University of California Santa Cruz) Chapter 2: Intercultural virtual communication and novice learners: Attitudes, perception and beliefs Liudmila Klimanova (University of Arizona) and Valentina Vinokurova (University of Arizona, PhD student) Chapter 3: Exploring attitude in bilingual virtual exchanges: A linguistic perspective Margarita Vinagre and Ana Oskoz Chapter 4: Participation, (non-)linguistic choices, and attitudes in an East-West telecollaboration Carolyn Fuchs (Northeastern University), Tsz Yan Lo (Hong Kong Glory Education & Technology Limited), and Sneha Thapa (Independent Scholar) Chapter 5: Understanding L2 Teachers' Attitudes via Their Uses of Multimodal Resources in Telecollaboration Meei-Ling Liaw (National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan) and Sabrina Priego ( Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada) Chapter 6: What's with the attitude? Exploring attitudinal resources in telecollaboration for teacher education Joe Cunningham and Marianna Ryshina-Pankova (both at Georgetown University) Chapter 7: Researching emotions and attitude through student teachers' reflections on telecollaborative virtual exchange Francesca Helm and Alice Baroni (both at the University of Padova)

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Ana Oskoz is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA. Margarita Vinagre is an Associate Professor at Autonoma University of Madrid where she teaches English Language and Linguistics.

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