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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Integrating Cross-Cultural Interaction through Video-Communication and Virtual Worlds in Foreign Language Teaching Programs: Is There an Added Value?
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Canto, Silvia; Jauregi, Kristi; van den Bergh, Huub – ReCALL, 2013
Organizing and implementing telecollaboration projects in foreign language curricula is not an easy endeavour (Belz & Thorne, 2006; Guth & Helm, 2010), as pedagogical, organizational and technical issues have to be addressed before cross-cultural interaction sessions can be carried out (O'Dowd & Ritter, 2006; O'Dowd, 2011). These issues make many…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
Virtual Interaction through Video-Web Communication: A Step towards Enriching and Internationalizing Language Learning Programs
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Jauregi, Kristi; Banados, Emerita – ReCALL, 2008
This paper describes an intercontinental project with the use of interactive tools, both synchronous and asynchronous, which was set up to internationalize academic learning of Spanish language and culture. The objective of this case study was to investigate whether video-web communication tools can contribute to enriching the quality of foreign…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Second Language Learning