Sociocultural-Linguistics & Pragmatics College & University Education Research-Oriented Short Presentation
Does Inquiry-Based Learning Make or Break Telecollaboration?
Online international exchanges are becoming an essential element of teaching and learning intercultural communicative competence. One of the challenges for learners engaged in such virtual exchanges is that not all participants may be familiar with specific aspects of their own lingua-culture. In this study, we developed an inquiry-based model of online intercultural exchange. We then conducted a series of empirical experiments to test the validity of the model in an L2 classroom in Japan.
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Murod Ismailov, PhD is an assistant professor at the Centre for Education of Global Communication at the University of Tsukuba and a Visiting lecturer at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the National Police Academy (Japan). His current research covers internationalization of higher education, learner-centered English Medium Instruction (EMI) in STEM and social sciences, multimedia learning, classroom motivation, e-learning, and telecollaboration. His latest articles appeared in Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, Cogent Education, E-Learning and Digital Media, F1000Research and other refereed international journals.