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标题：HOW ESP PEDAGOGY IN INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL COLLABORATION CONTRIBUTES TO THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE LEARNING PROCESS: A CASE STUDY
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作者：Wendy Winn ; Wendy Winn ; Katalin Beck 等
期刊名称：International Online Journal of Education and Teaching
电子版ISSN：2148-225X
出版年度：2018
卷号：5
期号：4
页码：1007-1029
语种：English
出版社：Informascope
摘要：Given the rapid advances in information communication technology (ICT) and the everincreasing likelihood that students will be collaborating on cross-cultural teams in their future careers,creating opportunities to engage in collaborative writing projects across borders and then observing the dynamics of international virtual online collaboration have high pedagogical value,though studies are scarce.This research examines the learning process that occurred when engineering and computer science students from France and Germany were connected with business and technical writing students from the US to work on coauthored documents.The researchers were specifically interested in how students addressed the situational constraints of the collaboration and how those constraints influenced students'choices of communication and collaboration tools.Two separate projects were assigned and each employed reading,writing,“talking,” and critical thinking components.Analysis of post-project survey data and the correlation of students'ICT choices revealed students had to continually renegotiate their communication and collaboration.Allowing students to make rhetorical choices resulted in cultural learning through hands-on experience with these constraint variables: English language proficiency,cultural differences,project complexity,time difference,and technology.The results from this study will be useful to ESP pedagogy in projecting how to prepare students for international virtual collaboration.
关键词：ESP pedagogy;international virtual collaboration;information communication technology