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20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

WANG SZILAS, Jue, ZHANG, Ling, BERGER, Claudia

Abstract

This article presents the findings of an eTandem Chinese-French exchange course during two academic years, the year 2010-2011 when the course was not credited, and the year 2011-2012 when the course was credited in one university but not in the other. It focuses on the students' perspective about the language exchange experience. The participants are second year language students from both universities – Level B1-B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR, 2001). The course includes theme-based asynchronous learning activities in the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle of theme-based exercises, and writing a forum post in their mother tongue for language partners, as well as task-based synchronous oral communication via Skype. A course evaluation was done after each academic year and the data were collected. The findings showed that the fact that the course was credited really affected the students' appreciation of the exchange experience, even though it was only credited in one side.

WANG SZILAS, Jue, ZHANG, Ling, BERGER, Claudia. 20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future . Dublin : Research-publishing.net, 2013

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Do Students Share the Same Experience in an Online Language Exchange Programme?

– The Chinese-French eTandem Case

Jue Wang Szilas

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, Ling Zhang

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, and Claudia Berger

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Abstract

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Keywords

1. Introduction

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How to cite this article

20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future. Proceedings of the 2013 EUROCALL

Conference, Évora, Portugal .

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Chung, Wesche, &

Kötter, 2003 Little &

& Telles & Tian & Wang,

2010).

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culture.

Wang, Berger, & Szilas, 2012

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2. Method 2.1. Data collection

2.2. Subjects

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2.3. Data analysis

2.3.1. Comparison of HubeiU students’ course evaluation between 2010-2011 and 2011-2012

2.3.2. Comparison of UniGe students’ course evaluation between 2010-2011 and 2011-2012

2.3.3. Comparison of HubeiU and UniGe students’ course evaluation for the academic year 2010-2011

2.3.4. Comparison of HubeiU and UniGe students’ course evaluation for the

academic year 2011-2012

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3. Discussion

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4. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

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