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Exploring Virtual Exchange Between Brazil and U.S. Second Language Acquisition Teacher Education Courses
Sun, April 14, 9:35 to 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115CAbstract
The aims of this Virtual Exchange (VE) (Garcés & O’Dowd, 2020) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project between second language acquisition (SLA) teacher education courses at a university in the US and in Brazil (2022 & 2023) were to support and investigate preservice teachers' (PST): intercultural communicative competence (ICC), language practices, local and global perspectives, and collaborative practices through information and communication technologies (ICT). With faculty guidance, PST asynchronously and synchronously engaged (each team Brazil and US) in informal communication and then formally studied and presented international and regional cultural norms for SLA. PST surveys and periodic narratives of the process, communications, and projects along with professor analysis of PST learning informed the outcomes related to the aims.