The Trouble with Cyberpragmatics
| Autor: | Elwyn Lloyd, Marina Orsini-Jones, Amine Ennagadi, Gwenola Bescond, Brenda Ivonne Garcia, Fiona Lee, Michael Cribb |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Communicative competence Linguistics and Language 05 social sciences 050301 education Identity (social science) 06 humanities and the arts Computer Science Applications Education Intercultural learning Intercultural relations 0602 languages and literature Pedagogy Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Global citizenship Action research Telecollaboration Psychology 0503 education Curriculum |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching. 7:50-65 |
| ISSN: | 2155-7101 2155-7098 |
| DOI: | 10.4018/ijcallt.2017010104 |
| Popis: | This paper reports on MexCo (Mexico-Coventry), an ongoing online intercultural learning project underpinned by action research. Its aim is to embed internationalisation into the curriculum of the institutions involved in order to promote citizenship competences, online intercultural communicative competence in particular, among both students and staff. The integration of telecollaboration into the curriculum has highlighted problematic aspects of the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC), such as cyberpragmatics (Yus, 2011). Cyberpragmatics is intended here as the skill of understanding others' intended meanings in computer-mediated communication. It is suggested that cyberpragmatics in online intercultural learning exchanges is a ‘Threshold Concept' (TC) (Meyer & Land, 2005, p. 375), i.e. a key concept that is troublesome to understand as it is challenging to the identity of the learner, but which could open new learning horizons to the students who do manage to grasp it. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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