Percepción del alumnado con respecto al desarrollo de la competencia intercultural en el proyecto telecolaborativo etwinning “Preparados para un Erasmus!/Prêts pour un Erasmus!”/ STUDENTS’S PERCEPTION REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN THE TELLECOLABORATIVE ETWINNING PROJEC

Abstract

In this study, we present the findings of an on-line collaborative project eTwinning between secondary school students of French as a Foreign Language in a Spanish high school and secondary school students of Spanish as a Foreign Language in a French high school during one semester of the academic year 2015-2016. The students worked together in small groups in the online platform TwinSpace, exchanging personal and socio-cultural information and corrections about each other’s language (Spanish and French) in discussion forums with the aim to improve their intercultural competence. Data was gathered from two instruments that included the student’s answers to a questionnaire and an interview at the end of the project. The quantitative and qualitative analysis seems to suggest regarding the participant’s perception that there are evidences of development of intercultural competence as presented in Byram’s model (1997, 2000).