Designing telecollaborative tasks for languages learning through world tales
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cultural exchange, languages learning, intercultural education, story telling.Abstract
This article focuses on telecollaboration task design for the development of linguistic, literary, intercultural and digital competences, bearing in mind the different actions taken before and during the project so as to guarantee its success. The proposal, which stems from the iTECLA project, joins telecollaboration with the writing and sharing of stories which reflect cultural values from the participants' respective countries of origin. The project involves the completion of a set of tasks by students in a guided process of analysis and reflection based on methods of online telecollaborative work in languages learning contexts. In order to test the appropriateness of the proposed tasks with regard to the development of different competences, according to the perceptions of the students themselves, a pilot study was carried out with 10 participants from 3 different countries. They completed a questionnaire with both open-ended and closed questions. The results of this study about task implementation showed that 90% of the participants felt that the project had completely fulfilled their expectations. Furthermore, participants gave the highest scores in those questions related to their perceptions about the development of creativity, while also rating very positively the project’s contribution to the development of literary, linguistic, intercultural and digital competences. These results indicate the achievement of the goals while revealing the great pedagogical potential of these kinds of tasks.
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