Documente Academic
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Documente Cultură
UC Santa Barbara
Why do it?
1. To be able to say with greater
certainty, beyond anecdotal
evidence, that your efforts are
having an effect (hopefully
positive!).
2. To conduct formative and
summative evaluation.
Today’spresentation is framed in
terms of my experience with 2
research projects:
◦ ICE (UCSB-Uni Kassel, Germany)
based on Cultura
◦ Chin 332 project w/ Stephen & David
Bothbegan w/o research
questions.
1stround: ICE added to curriculum
so only online questionnaires and
forums
In writing a chapter for Teaching
with Technology we discovered
that students were missing a lot
of subtle differences
E-mail exchanges vs. forums
2nd round: different partner
group with unequal numbers
Small forum groups with 6/group
Students reported back to the
class: mismatch between what
they said in forums and in class
Analysis of classroom discourse
using Byram’s ICC disappointing
3rdround: different format (ABC)
due to partner’s request
Teacher-chosen topics did not
work as well as student-chosen
topics
1. What would you like your
students to learn from the cafés?
2. What kinds of evidence would
show that they have learned it?
3. How can you find or obtain
this kind of evidence?
What are the 3-4 most important
things you want your students to
learn from this exchange?
Take a moment to write them
down.
How will you define success?
Build a community
◦ Intercultural exchange (including
business culture)
◦ Linguistic community
Affective: Sense of solidarity
Linguistic: Cohesion in the
discourse
Expanded vocabulary
Grammar practice
Additional chances to use the L2
Language variation
Authentic language in the real
world, beyond the textbooks
How others think
How others act/behave in social
contexts
How things work in daily life in
the other’s culture
Openness, awareness, curiosity
about other culture
Examine cultural assumptions
about the other culture
Local adaptation of the other
culture