Instagram: an Australian-Catalan telecollaboration experiment (DOI: 10.2436/20.3000.02.53)

Authors

  • Andreu Pedró-García Universitat Jaume I

Keywords:

telecollaboration, online learning, Catalan as a second language, intercultural competence, interaction, Instagram

Abstract

This article explores the pedagogical potential of a project carried out with Catalan as a second language learners and native Catalan speakers using the digital application Instagram within a university setting. This project ran parallel to in-person language classes, and it combined photographs and written expression to make the learning process more enriching, direct and connected to the real world. The main objectives of this project were first to foster Catalan learners’ interaction and contact with native speakers and thus improve their communicative competence, and secondly to introduce both groups to sociocultural aspects of the two cultures to help them more directly attain intercultural competence. The resulting data shed light on forms of remote interaction with native speakers as well as on the suitability of social media for collaborative activities within a university setting. 

Key words: telecollaboration, online learning, Catalan as a second language, intercultural competence, interaction, Instagram.

Original source: Revista d’Innovació i Recerca en Educació, 9(1): 11-28 (2016)

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Published

2020-11-04

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Pedagogy