Virtual exchange among pre-service teachers of English as foreign language: Literature recommendations for practice

Nikola Lehotská Mačičková, Elena Kováčiková

Article ID: 9450
Vol 8, Issue 13, 2024


Abstract


Use of technologies and online presence is now almost inevitable in language learning. The practice of virtual exchanges (VEs) has been receiving a lot of attention among educators at all levels over the past years. This research paper sheds light on 13 VEs carried out in pre-service teacher education in the last six years and proposes its own VE design based on recommendations from the literature with the future perspective of designing a specific VE for the research. The aim of the systematic review was at first to determine the exchange and interaction set-ups and the potential gains in the terms of pre-service teachers’ skills development. Afterwards, we identified areas for improvement and proposed our design of a VE between pre-service teachers of English in Slovakia and Turkey. Some of the expected contributions of the proposed VE design are development of a linguistic and intercultural communicative competence, digital literacy, and other competences relevant for development of VEs.


Keywords


virtual exchange; pre-service English teachers; intercultural; linguistic; digital competences development; practice recommendations

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