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Encouraging Transnational Learning Through Virtual Exchange in Global Teacher Education
and Foreign Language Learning: Second language learning happens in the region where the learner lives, while foreign language learning is the learning of a language from a region outside of where it is learned. For the purpose of this chapter, the distinction is not necessary.
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Virtual Exchange in Teacher Training and the Foreign Language Classroom: Global Competence Skills and Development in an Interdisciplinary Pilot
Sandra McGury (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) and Robert Klosinski (IGS Schöppenstedt, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7813-4.ch010
Abstract
Global competence development is part of the process of internationalization of the curriculum and pedagogical tools, like virtual exchange (VE), to create internationalization opportunities. This chapter focuses on an interdisciplinary VE project between two higher education institutions of the Global North. After the semester-long collaboration, students enrolled in a teacher training program and students from a foreign language classroom evaluated the importance of certain global competence skills and reflected on their own development thereof. The authors present the organizational setup and analyze the self-assessment in light of global citizenship skills and their relevance in teacher training or foreign language learning.
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