Abstract
This paper reports on research carried out on data extracted from MexCo (Mexico-Coventry), an ongoing Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in its fifth implementation cycle at the time of writing (May 2016). Based on a set of collaborative intercultural tasks that participants engage with through a tailor-made Moodle area, MexCo aims to embed internationalisation into the curriculum of the two institutions involved in order to promote global citizenship competences among both students and staff. This study reports on the corpus-based linguistic analysis of the written asynchronous exchanges in two of the discussion forums in MexCo in academic year 2014-2015. The analysis was carried out by an ‘expert student’ in collaboration with staff with a focus on the use of pronouns, and three key differences were observed regarding the use of the first person plural pronoun ‘we’.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New directions in telecollaborative research and practice: selected papers from the second conference on telecollaboration in higher education |
| Editors | S. Jager, M. Kurek |
| Place of Publication | Dublin, Ireland |
| Publisher | Research-publishing.net |
| Pages | 283-290 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-908416-41-4, 978-1-908416-42-1, 978-1-908416-40-7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Nov 2016 |
| Event | The second conference on telecollaboration in higher education: New directions in telecollaborative research and practice - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 1 Apr 2016 → 1 Apr 2016 |
Conference
| Conference | The second conference on telecollaboration in higher education |
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| Country | Ireland |
| City | Dublin |
| Period | 1/04/16 → 1/04/16 |
Bibliographical note
This paper was given at the “New directions in telecollaborative research and practice: the second conference on telecollaboration in higher education” hosted by Trinity College Dublin in April 2016. The book is published open access online at: https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.telecollab2016.9781908416414CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Keywords
- MexCo
- Online Intercultural Exchange
- Corpus Analysis
- Expert Student
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Orsini-Jones, M., Gazeley-Eke, Z., & Leinster, H. (2016). A Corpus-Based Study of the of the Use of Pronouns in the Asynchronous Discussion Forums in the Online Intercultural Exchange MexCo. In S. Jager, & M. Kurek (Eds.), New directions in telecollaborative research and practice: selected papers from the second conference on telecollaboration in higher education (pp. 283-290). Dublin, Ireland: Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.telecollab2016.519, https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.telecollab2016.9781908416414