Abstract

Online intercultural collaborations using wikis: An analysis of students’ comments and factors affective project success

Highlights

  • Online interactive collaborations have become much more prevalent in foreign language classrooms in the past decade as technology and bandwidth have enabled instant access to people and places around the world

  • Online intercultural collaborations offer a chance for students to hone both of these skills: the communications opportunities provided include a native speaker with whom language learners can practice their l2 skills as well as learn about the target language culture from a first-hand source

  • In reviewing the numbers of questions asked and answered or unanswered as an indication of actual communications and intercultural exchange, the data showed that a total of 59 questions asked on the Japanese-language wiki pages and 115 questions were asked on the English-language wiki pages over the three-year term of the collaboration

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Introduction

Online interactive collaborations have become much more prevalent in foreign language classrooms in the past decade as technology and bandwidth have enabled instant access to people and places around the world. Conducting computer-based intercultural exchange activities provides students with an opportunity to develop the communications and computing skills necessary for work in the 21st century global market. Online intercultural collaborations offer a chance for students to hone both of these skills: the communications opportunities provided include a native speaker with whom language learners can practice their l2 skills as well as learn about the target language culture from a first-hand source. Internet-based intercultural exchanges are especially valuable for language learners living far from the country in which their l2 is spoken, such as Japanese learners of English or American students of Japanese (Nielsen, 2013).

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