Addressing Power Imbalance in Telecollaboration to Promote Attitudes of Intercultural Competence

Autores

  • Massimo Verzella Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Vivian Nádia Ribeiro de Moraes Caruzzo Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara (UNESP/FCLAr)
  • Tamiris Destro Costa Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara (UNESP/FCLAr)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2021v24n1p97

Resumo

Internationalization-at-home (IaH) can benefit all types of students, and its value has become more evident in the long aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper reports on a virtual exchange project: Students of English as a foreign language in Brazil and English composition in the US engaged in an international telecollaboration project in which both groups took on the role of authors and reviewers. Research on telecollaboration is rapidly growing to help instructors understand how to help students develop intercultural competence and an ability to collaborate with people from different backgrounds. To determine whether the participating students achieved these learning goals, we asked them to complete a questionnaire at the end of the project. Results show that the telecollaboration stimulated students’ interest in other cultures, a crucial first step towards the acquisition of intercultural competence. The students collaborated effectively because the two groups trusted each other’s linguistic competence. Telecollaboration proved to be one of the most pedagogically sound initiatives within the sphere of IaH. More instructors should prepare students to communicate and collaborate effectively in cross-cultural teams through this type of experiential learning.

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Biografia do Autor

Massimo Verzella, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Massimo Verzella is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of English Composition at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. He received a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Writing and Culture from North Dakota State University and a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. His main areas of interest are in intercultural communication, the internationalization of higher education, writing pedagogy, applied linguistics, and translation. Massimo is a member of the Trans-Atlantic and Pacific Project (TAPP), a grassroots organization of teachers who organize international projects by linking classes in the U.S. with classes overseas.

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Publicado

2021-10-08

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VERZELLA, M.; MORAES CARUZZO, V. N. R. de; COSTA, T. D. Addressing Power Imbalance in Telecollaboration to Promote Attitudes of Intercultural Competence. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 24, n. 1, p. 97–114, 2021. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2021v24n1p97. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/44702. Acesso em: 2 maio. 2024.