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- Title
Using Activity Theory to understand the contradictions in an online transatlantic collaboration between student-teachers of English as a Foreign Language.
- Authors
Antoniadou, Victoria
- Abstract
This article describes the contradictions reported by student-teachers in Barcelona who engaged in telecollaboration with transatlantic peers via Second Life, during their initial training in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The data analysis draws upon Grounded Theory and is theoretically informed by Activity Theory and the notion of contradictions. The study discusses technology-based, intra- and inter-institutional contradictions, their impact on the development of the telecollaborative activity, and outcomes in bolstering student-teachers’ conceptual understanding of Network-Based Language Instruction.
- Subjects
BARCELONA (Spain); SPAIN; TEACHER education; ENGLISH language; TEACHER training; DATA analysis; FOREIGN language education; CONTRADICTION; TEACHER-student communication
- Publication
ReCALL, 2011, Vol 23, Issue 3, p233
- ISSN
0958-3440
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0958344011000164