Abstract
We evaluate the use of a Virtual Exchange (VE) writing task, Stimulus Writing, which we assigned to groups of UK and Finnish business students. There were two learner cohorts in the study: one in the UK (mainly Chinese students), the other in Finland (mainly Finns). The Finnish students wrote authentic case studies about Nordic businesses, while the students in the UK adopted our Stimulus Writing approach to write a report based on a case study given to them by the Finnish students. In Smith & Keng (2017) we reported on the experiences of the Finnish students in the collaboration. In this study, we examine the perceptions of the UK-based Chinese students. They found the approach motivating, and believed that through it their academic English skills improved, as did their understanding of business and culture.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 736-745 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Innovations in Education and Teaching International |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 24 Aug 2021 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 24 Aug 2021 |
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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Keywords
- EAP
- Academic Writing
- COIL
- Telecollaboration
- stimulus writing
- Collaborative Writing
- English
- Finnish students
- Chinese students in the UK