Preparing student mobility through telecollaboration

Giralt, Marta; Jeanneau, Catherine

doi:10.14705/rpnet.2016.telecollab2016.507

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“…On this latter subject, Earls (2018) explains how student European mobility can be promoted thanks to the development of accredited modules to prepare for the Erasmus experience. Giralt and Jeanneau (2016) claim that telecollaboration can be used to prepare students for their European Erasmus mobilities. Bruen (2013a) discusses how Erasmus mobilities alter the concept of citizenship in the participants.…”

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Language teaching and learning in Ireland: 2012–2021

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The language teaching landscape in Ireland has changed considerably over the last 30 years as a result of substantial and sustained inward migration into the country during this period. These social and demographic developments have added to the country's already bilingual context and created a much more varied multilingual landscape than had existed in previous decades. They have also impacted various aspects of language teaching policy, provision and methods for both indigenous and foreign languages. This article reviews research on language teaching and learning in Ireland published during the period 2012–2021. We discuss relevant work disseminated primarily in peer-reviewed journals (national and international), as well as in books, commissioned reports and chapters in edited volumes. The research and policy documents presented concern the teaching and learning of Irish, English and Modern Foreign Languages as second and/or additional languages across all levels of education. They address language teacher training contexts as well. We believe that this review of research demonstrates the extent to which recent inquiries in these domains have advanced knowledge and practice in the Irish context, and have also informed the international research community more generally.

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Language teaching and learning in Ireland: 2012–2021

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“…During this pilot year of Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange, several projects have been developed by educators precisely for this purpose. For example one exchange was designed on an already tested model (Giralt & Jeanneau, 2016) for students in Ireland and Spain preparing to go on Erasmus mobility. Also, an exchange was developed within the context of a youth worker project, Pathways to Leadership, which blends residential training with virtual exchange.…”

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The long and winding road…

Helm

2018

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The long and winding road is a metaphor for a journey, often used to describe life journeys and the challenges encountered. The metaphor was used for the title of my keynote to refer both to the journey towards the current position of virtual exchange in education policy – but also the long road ahead. This paper aims to explore the emergence of virtual exchange in educational policy and how it has been adopted by non-profit organisations, educational institutions, and policy makers to address geo- and socio-political tensions. Though still a relatively new field, in recent years there have been some important developments in terms of policy statements and public investments in virtual exchange. The paper starts by looking at the current state-of-the-art in terms of virtual exchange in education policy and initiatives in Europe. Then, using an approach based on ‘episode studies’ from the policy literature, the paper explores the main virtual exchange schemes and initiatives that have drawn the attention of European policy makers. The paper closes by looking at some of the lessons we have learnt from research on the practice of virtual exchange, and how this can inform us as we face the long road ahead of us. The focus of this paper is on the European context not because I assume it to be the most important or influential, but rather because it is the one I know best, since it is the context in which I have been working.

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“…There exist three different ways in which VEs are being implemented into international HE institutions nowadays. These are: pre-mobility (Giralt and Jeanneau, 2016;Batardière et al, 2019), blended mobility (European Commission, 2020) and class to class VEs (EVALUATE group, 2019). First, pre-mobility VEs aim to get students ready for their period of study abroad by engaging them in interaction and collaboration with partners from the destination university before their mobility.…”

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Virtual exchange and the integration of global and ecological citizenship in foreign language education

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This thesis was written and is framed in a context of educational change and global challenge marked by historic events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine and the environmental crisis among others. As asserted in the 2022 UN's annual 'Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report': "Today, we stand on the precipice of a critical moment. Either we fail to deliver on our commitments to support the world's most vulnerable or together we turbo-charge our efforts to rescue the SDGs and deliver meaningful progress for people and the planet by 2030" (UN, 2022, p. 4). For this reason, the pedagogical activities proposed here take on special relevance due to their suitability for the development of intercultural (Byram, 2008), global (OECD, 2018), and ecological (Dobson, 2000 citizenship competences that favour sustainable and peaceful coexistence. As stated by the OECD (2018): "Developing a global and intercultural outlook is a process -a lifelong process-that education can shape" (p.5). It is following this idea of using education as a shaping power for preparing students to seize the opportunities and face the challenges that the present context poses that this doctoral thesis is born.

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Preparing student mobility through telecollaboration

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Language teaching and learning in Ireland: 2012–2021

Language teaching and learning in Ireland: 2012–2021

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Virtual exchange and the integration of global and ecological citizenship in foreign language education

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