Experiential Learning of Telecollaborative Competences in Pre-Service Teacher Education

Autor/inn/en	Grau, Maike Korinna; Turula, Anna
Titel	Experiential Learning of Telecollaborative Competences in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Quelle	In: Language Learning & Technology, 23 (2019) 3, S.98-115 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1094-3501
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Computer Mediated Communication; Experiential Learning; Teacher Education Programs; Language Teachers; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Computer Simulation; Exchange Programs; Individual Development; Ethnography; Teacher Role; Professional Development; Elementary Schools; Technological Literacy; Teaching Methods; Intercultural Communication; Poland; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Computerkonferenz; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Exchange programme; Exchange program; Exchange programmes; Austauschprogramm; Individuelle Entwicklung; Ethnografie; Lehrerrolle; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Technisches Wissen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Polen; Deutschland
Abstract	This paper aims to contribute to the growing literature on how prospective foreign language teachers can learn to be successful telecollaborators. We investigate Polish and German TEFL students' perceptions of how they develop the competences, attitudes, and beliefs described by O'Dowd (2015) through experiential learning in a virtual exchange. Using grounded theory as its research methodology, our study used data from three different sources: (a) a pre- and post-project survey investigating students' changing perceptions of the relevance of telecollaboratively taught classes for their professional and personal development, (b) a survey and ethnographic observation focusing on students' perceptions of and attitudes toward distributed teaching presence in the exchange project (cf. Turula & Grau, 2018), and (c) a case study employing a survey and a semi-structured interview with a participant who carried out her own telecollaborative project in a primary school. The necessarily tentative results of this small-scale investigation point toward the suitability of the experiential learning approach for the development of organisational, digital, and pedagogical telecollaborative competences, potentially shaping prospective teachers' attitudes and beliefs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01