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Challenge and misunderstandings in VE

Communication and collaboration with partners from different cultural backgrounds require participants to step out of their comfort zone and adapt their thinking to a new situation. Confronting tensions and misunderstandings and learning from them is a vital part of this process. When framed by teachers  as learning opportunities aka critical incidents they can lead to intense intercultural learning.

The most commonly reported grounds for VE tensions include:

  • varying levels of language competence
  • different interpretations of tasks
  • varying levels of teamwork skills
  • differing levels of intercultural experiences
  • differing levels of time and effort investment
  • disparity of content knowledge

Please go to Task 3.1  in this module to learn about real-life examples of VE tensions and misunderstandings

 

About this course

The pages here are a copy of the Co-Laboratory Training in Virtual Exchange developed by the EVOLVE team. The course is available as Open Educational Resource under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.  It can be downloaded as an IMS Common Cartridge and imported in your institution’s virtual learning environment. For more information, see Training Resources.

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