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Enhancing EFL Teacher Training through International Collaboration with the Use of Videoconferencing
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Loranc-Paszylk, Barbara |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | The paper aims to give an overview of possible benefits resulting from the incorporation of videoconferencing in EFL teacher training. Furthermore, it presents some preliminary results of a project that included a few experimental sessions of videoconferencing organized as a result of international collaboration between two universities from Poland and Spain: University of Bielsko-Biala and University of León. The participants were both Polish and Spanish students majoring in English and specializing in TEFL. The project’s aims were to create a collaborative learning environment where students can discuss and design didactic materials using team work activities and at the same time, to develop students’ communicative language skills through audio and visual interactions in real time. The results of this mini project, illustrated through students’ opinions collected in the interviews and the perspectives of the teachers involved, aim at helping maximize the potential benefits in foreign language teacher training that might be offered by new technologies and allow to arrive at recommendations to make the most of such cross-cultural encounters allowed by the use of ITC |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/files/ict4ll/ed0007/FP/1264-LTT786-FP-ICT4LL7.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
