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Tiêu đề
Developing an effective Chinese-American telecollaborative learning program: an action research study
Tác giả
Luo H.; Gui M.
Năm xuất bản
2021
Source title
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Số trích dẫn
12
DOI
10.1080/09588221.2019.1633355
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Despite the rapid development of telecollaboration in foreign language education, telecollaborative exchanges involving Chinese as the target language have not received sufficient attention. Adopting an action research approach, this study focuses on examining the student perceptions as well as the challenges of a carefully designed Chinese-American telecollaborative learning program involving Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) students at a small liberal arts college in the US and Chinese-speaking English majors at a large university in China. This study drew on a variety of data for analysis, including naturally occurring interaction data (i.e., Skype conversations, WeChat group discussion transcripts), students' weekly reflection journals, informal interviews with the students throughout the semester, end-of-program interviews, student responses to an end-of-semester questionnaire, and the teacher-researcher reflective journal. The results showed that this program was, in general, well received among the CFL students at the US college. The intermediate-level CFL students evaluated this program more positively than the elementary-level students. However, this program also faced many challenges, such as scheduling and technological issues with Skype conversations, target language proficiency gap, perceived irrelevance to Chinese proficiency development, heavy workload, lack of depth in WeChat group discussion, and the demanding role of the teacher-researcher. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Từ khóa
action research; Chinese as a foreign language (CFL); online intercultural exchange; Telecollaboration; WeChat
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Routledge
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