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Title: | Bridging the language and cultural gaps: The use of blogs | Authors: | García-Sánchez, Soraya Rojas-Lizana, Sol |
UNESCO Clasification: | 57 Lingüística 58 Pedagogía |
Keywords: | Blog Conscious learning Collaborative learning EFL ELE, et al |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Publisher: | 1475-939X | Journal: | Technology, Pedagogy and Information | Abstract: | This article aims to demonstrate how the use of an online journal, a bilingualblog, can contribute tofilling in the language and cultural gaps of foreign lan-guage learners. This case study focuses on the participation, interaction, motiva-tion, language acquisition, feedback and cultural input improved by students ofSpanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Queensland in Australia andstudents of English as a Foreign Language at the Universidad de Las Palmas deGran Canaria in Spain. It demonstrates how this learner-directed instructionalcontext allows intercultural andlanguageexchanges,firstly between partici-pants, as a peer revision exercise and secondly, as collaborative work and a dis-cussion platform in the blogGranCanBrisbaneEspañolEnglish | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/45606 | ISSN: | 1475-939X | DOI: | 10.1080/1475939X.2012.719396 | Source: | Technology, Pedagogy and Education[ISSN 1475-939X],v. 21, p. 361-381 |
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