This book examines the relationships between online visual interfaces and language use in educational contexts and the features that underpin them to explore the complex nature of online communication and its implications for educational practice. Adopting a case study approach featuring a global range of examples, the volume uniquely focuses on multimodal intercultural interactions, with a particular interest in videoconferencing, to look at how they project and reflect particular cultural values and tendencies concerning language use and how they elucidate the complex cultural identifications and affiliations inherent in intercultural encounters. The book employs a diverse range of theoretical and research frameworks to highlight the dynamic connections between digital technology, social life, and language use, and the ways in which they can inform language education, making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, communication studies, media studies, information studies, and education.
1. Introduction: Intercultural Exchange in the Age of Online Multimodal
Communication
Richard Kern and Christine Develotte
Part I. Culture and Technoculture: Re-envisioning Interculturality
2. Comme une Franēaise: Maintaining an Intercultural Threshold Space in
Online Video
Juliana de Nooy
3. Glocal Tensions: Exploring the Dynamics of Intercultural Communication
Through a Language Learners Vlog
Tatiana Codreanu and Christelle Combe
4. People of the Eye Communicating Online: Deaf Intercultural Encounters in
E-SCALE
Siglinde Pape
5. Intergenerational Videoconferencing: Interpersonal Bonds and the Role of
the Webcam
Erica Dumont
6. Translation, Video-technology, and Interculturality: Benefits and Limits
Layla Roesler and Fabienne Dumontet
Part II. Telepresence, Felt Presence, Imagined Presence
7. Learning and Teaching Languages in Technology-Mediated Contexts: The
Relevance of Social Presence, Co-Presence, Participatory Literacy and
Multimodal Competence
Mirjam Hauck and Müge Satar
8. Enacting the Scenography of a Video Call Within its Opening Sequence
Samira Ibnelkaļd
9. Affordances and Task Design: A Case Study of Online Mentoring between
Practicing Teachers and Adolescent Learners
Paige Ware, Karla del Rosal, and Jillian Conry
10. Seeing Apart and Learning Together: Intersubjectivity in Shared Language
Classrooms
David Malinowski
11. Medium and Addressivity in French Online Exchanges
Richard Kern and Emily Linares
12. Effects of Presence in Videoconference Exchanges
Christine Develotte, Morgane Domanchin, and Sabine Levet
13. Multimodality and Social Presence in an Intercultural Exchange Setting
Meei-Ling Liaw and Paige Ware
14. Conclusion
Christine Develotte and Richard Kern
Richard Kern is Professor of French and Director of the Berkeley Language Center at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His pervious publications include Language, Literacy, and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Literacy and Language Teaching (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Christine Develotte is University Professor in Language Sciences at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the originator of the online collaborative learning project Le franēais en (premičre) ligne, which has brought together tutors and learners of French from around the world since 2002.
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