<Research Paper>Intercultural Learning about Cultural Concepts Using English as a Lingua Franca: Online Exchanges Between German and Japanese University Students

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  • Dalsky David
    Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University
  • Mattig Ruprecht
    Faculty of Education, Psychology, and Educational Research, Technical University Dortmund

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  • <論文>英語をリンガフランカとした文化概念に関する異文化間学習 日独の大学生によるオンライン交流
  • Intercultural Learning about Cultural Concepts Using English as a Lingua Franca : Online Exchanges Between German and Japanese University Students

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Intercultural interaction between university students of two different speech communities (i.e., different native languages: German/Japanese) was central to this practitioner research project, which involved two semester-long online exchanges using English as a common foreign language. The students were researching emic Japanese cultural concepts, and the authors, as teachers, conducted systematic evaluations of the seminars (a total of 130 students). The authors discuss the results of their evaluations regarding intercultural learning. Students' reflections on this international classroom collaboration suggest that although English as a lingua franca is not bound to any specific culture, it can be successfully used in classrooms to initiate intercultural learning concerning particular cultures.

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