Acquiring Pragmatic and Intercultural Communicative Competences in the Digital Era - by Sofia Di Sarno-García (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This book explores second language pragmatic development and intercultural communicative competence acquisition through telecollaboration. Analysis is based on research into how undergraduate Spanish learners of English engage in telecollaboration projects with first language or highly proficient speakers of English and in traditional face-to-face instruction with their Spanish partners. Using synchronous (Zoom) and asynchronous (MeWe) digital tools, the book explores the beneficial role of telecollaboration projects in second and foreign language settings, offering researchers and teachers an example of how to implement it in their teaching practices"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

This book explores second language pragmatic development and intercultural communicative competence acquisition through telecollaboration.It shows how telecollaborative environments are appropriate for the development of these two competences and how they are inextricably interrelated.

Acquiring Pragmatic and Intercultural Communicative Competences in the Digital Era draws a comparison between the effects of telecollaboration projects and traditional face-to-face instruction within the foreign language classroom for developing pragmatic competence and intercultural communicative competence. Analysis is based on research into how undergraduate Spanish learners of English engage in telecollaboration projects with first language or highly proficient speakers of English and in traditional face-to-face instruction with their Spanish partners. Using synchronous (Zoom) and asynchronous (MeWe) digital tools, the book explores the beneficial role of telecollaboration projects in second and foreign language settings, offering researchers and teachers an example of how to implement this kind of project in their language teaching practices.

About the Author

Sofia Di Sarno-García holds an international PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de València as part of the CAMILLE research group. Currently, she is an Assistant Lecturer at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where she teaches English as a Foreign Language to engineering students. Dr Di Sarno-García has published in both national and international prestigious journals and volumes, and she has participated in national and European research projects in the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Her main research interests include telecollaboration, L2 pragmatics, and intercultural communicative competence. She is a collaborator of the International Association for Teaching Pragmatics, the Multidisciplinary Innovation Group (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), and the Teaching and Learning Languages in Multilingual Education research group (Universitat de València).