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The Trouble with Cyberpragmatics: Embedding an Online Intercultural Learning Project into the Curriculum

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  • Marina Erica Orsini-Jones

    (Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom)

  • Elwyn Lloyd

    (Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom)

  • Michael Cribb

    (Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom)

  • Fiona Lee

    (Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom)

  • Gwenola Bescond

    (Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom)

  • Amine Ennagadi

    (Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom)

  • Brenda Ivonne García

    (Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), Monterrey, Mexico)

Abstract

This paper reports on MexCo (Mexico-Coventry), an ongoing online intercultural learning project underpinned by action research. Its aim is to embed internationalisation into the curriculum of the institutions involved in order to promote citizenship competences, online intercultural communicative competence in particular, among both students and staff. The integration of telecollaboration into the curriculum has highlighted problematic aspects of the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC), such as cyberpragmatics (Yus, 2011). Cyberpragmatics is intended here as the skill of understanding others' intended meanings in computer-mediated communication. It is suggested that cyberpragmatics in online intercultural learning exchanges is a ‘Threshold Concept' (TC) (Meyer & Land, 2005, p. 375), i.e. a key concept that is troublesome to understand as it is challenging to the identity of the learner, but which could open new learning horizons to the students who do manage to grasp it.

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  • Marina Erica Orsini-Jones & Elwyn Lloyd & Michael Cribb & Fiona Lee & Gwenola Bescond & Amine Ennagadi & Brenda Ivonne García, 2017. "The Trouble with Cyberpragmatics: Embedding an Online Intercultural Learning Project into the Curriculum," International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), IGI Global, vol. 7(1), pages 50-65, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jcallt:v:7:y:2017:i:1:p:50-65
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