Telecollaboration HI-UB: online interaction and exchange in a language course

Abstract

This article presents an online interaction and exchange between Icelandic learners of Spanish as a foreign language from the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at the University of Iceland, that followed the course SPÆ267G Conversation II or Talþjálfun II: Fjölmiðlar og hversdagsmenning, taught during the 2019 spring semester, and preservice teachers of Spanish studying their Master’s degree at the University of Barcelona (sp. Universidad de Barcelona). This telecollaboration project was based on different communicative tasks that had to be completed collaboratively using different formats of online interaction (videoconferencing, WhatsApp, Flipgrid). Task designing and evaluation systems used in this project are presented in the article as well as the qualitative methodology that was applied in
order to analyze HI students’ reflections on the telecollaboration project and its impact on their language competence.