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Borghetti2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Borghetti2015
Author(s) Claudia Borghetti, Ana Beaven, Rosa Pugliese
Title Interactions among future study abroad students: exploring potential intercultural learning sequences
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Tag(s) Inter-cultural communication, Learning, Sequence organization, EMCA
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Intercultural Education
Volume 26
Number 1
Pages 31–48
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DOI 10.1080/14675986.2015.993515
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Abstract

The study presented in this article aims to explore if and how intercultural learning may take place in students’ class interaction. It is grounded in the assumption that interculturality is not a clear-cut feature inherent to interactions occurring when individuals with presumed different linguistic and cultural/national backgrounds talk to each other, but that interculturality is co-constructed during interaction. In other words, every ‘interdiscourse interaction’ is potentially intercultural. We have assumed this perspective while investigating student–student class interactions that took place in an intercultural education course aimed at enhancing students’ intercultural learning in view of their sojourn abroad. Interactional data were analysed from the perspective of conversation analysis. Then, drawing on the notion of séquence potentiellement acquisitionelle as well as on a constructivist approach to intercultural learning, we conclude that, in interaction with their peers, learners can co-construct ‘potential intercultural learning sequences’ (PILS), which present recognisable interactional and discursive features.

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