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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 88, 2020
International Scientific Forum “Issues of Modern Linguistics and the Study of Foreign Languages in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (dedicated to World Science Day for Peace and Development)” (LLT Forum 2020)
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Article Number | 02011 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Conference 2 - Methodological Problems of Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages Using Computer and Network Technologies | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208802011 | |
Published online | 24 December 2020 |
The Use of a Blog for the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence: the case of Tunisian and American Students
1
University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
2
Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA
* Corresponding author: nadia.abid@flshs.usf.tn
This paper is a report on a three-month telecollaboration between two groups of students studying in ISEAH of Sbeitla in Tunisia and SPSU, Atlanta, GA, in the USA. By bringing together students from two culturally and linguistically different environments, the telecollaboration aims at helping them communicate interculturally and raise their intercultural awareness and understanding. By means of a blog, students exchanged, discussed, and compared information about their cultures in the form of stories of which they are the main characters. The telecollaboration was evaluated by means of a questionnaire inquiring about students’ satisfaction with the use of the blog, the knowledge they gained of the foreign culture, their attitudes toward it, and the intercultural communicative skills acquired. The findings revealed participants’ satisfaction with the use of the blog as a means of communication and intercultural learning. It was also found out that students’ development of intercultural communicative competence manifested in their knowledge of the other culture and people, a change in their attitudes towards them, an ability to communicate with culturally different people, and an increased awareness of themselves and the other group.
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