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Designation/Project-Title:
TIC TALK
Homepage:
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Project-Number:
Actual date:
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04/01/2004
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The project is:
others
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Co-ordinating person:
Michael Evans
Address:
Faculty of Education,University of Cambridge, Cambridge GB
E-Mail:
mje1000@cam.ac.uk
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Contact person:
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Participating countries (In which countries the project takes/took place?)
Belgium, France, United Kingdom.
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Statistics:
number of participating persons / institutions:
6 schools,154 pupils in 24 groups.
project-costs:
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Short description:
In preparing for the transition from school to working life pupils are increasingly needing to converse in languages other than their mother tongue and to become inter culturally aware.

A study carried out by three researchers, E.Esch, M.Evans and L.Fisher, lecturers in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge GB to see how pupils learnfrom each other linguistically and culturally through the use of computer mediated conferencing is described below

Brief characterisation of the TIC- T ALK project

"The aim of the TIC-TALK project was to encourage intercultural understanding by providing anglophone and francophone pupils with opportunities to communicate' directly with pupils who were speakers of the language they were learning and who were learning their own language. Two key features of the project were that the pupils

. were communicating by e-mail via a bulletin board which also allowed

for the posting of pictures

. were organised in groups made up of participant§ located in different

countries.

The project was undertaken by staff in the Faculty of Education of the University of Cambridge working in collaboration with a network of teachers located in six secondary schools in four different countries. Three of the schools were in England. The French-speaking schools were in Belgium, in France, and in Senegal. The pupils were 14 -18 year olds. They were assigned to groups who communicated on a bulletin board available on the Internet called Web-Board. Each group had about 6 pupils from at least three countries. All groups were invited to carry out three activities requiring increasing levels of collaboration. The first activity consisted in responding in LI to pictures posted by the TIC-TALK team then by the pupils. The second activity to be carried out in L2 consisted in free conversations and the third activity - where pupils were encouraged to USE both languages - was the joint production of a poem.

Following an 8 week pilot in 2001, the main programme took place over four months starting in October 2002 with 24 groups involving 152 pupils. All participants had given permission to have their messages analysed for research purposes but all names have been changed in the examples to protect their identities.     .

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Transformable results:.
Can the results be transformed into other countries?yes
If yes, Have they been transformed into other countries?yes
If yes, in which countries have they been transformed?.
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Documentation of the project:
Which materials/documentations/publications/instruments/etc. of this project do exist?
Lecture notes.
Where can these documentations be demanded (For example: Address/Telephone of the institution/contact-person/list of publications/link for downloads/ etc.)
Coordinater and discourse on line www.shu.ac.uk/daol.
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