Welcome to the Interculture Wiki

 

 

This wiki, hosted by the University of Padova, Italy, will serve as the platform for a series of telecollaboration projects carried out by language teachers and researchers at the University of Padova with colleagues at higher education institutions abroad. As part of these telecollaboration projects, we hope that the students will develop wiki pages that focus on different aspects of culture and intercultural competence and that this can then serve as a resource not only for the students involved but other users on the Web as well. The wiki is readable to the public but only editable via password. If you would like to contribute, and you are, of course, welcome to, please send an email to the administrator, Sarah Guth.

 

 

Index of the projects currently being carried out.

Padova-Dickinson Spring 2008   Padova-Sabanci Spring 2008   Padova-Poznan Spring 2008   Padova-Tulane Winter 2008   Padova-Albany Fall 2007   Padova-Tulane Spring 2007 Padova-Tulane Fall 2006

   

 

Padova-Dickinson Spring 2008

 

The Padova-Dickinson project is an exchange between last-year Master's level degree students in English at the University of Padova, Italy, and third-year undergraduate students at Dickinson College, PA, USA studying Italian. Both courses use a cultural studies approach to teaching the respective language and the exchange project to develop students' intercultural competence.

Padova Students - happy the last day of class!

 

 

 

Padova-Sabanci Spring 2008

 

This Padova-Sabanci project is an exchange between 3rd-year Italian and Turkish students. The students use English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Both courses use a topic based approach to teaching English and the exchange project to develop students' intercultural competence and communication skills.

 

 

 

Padova-Poznan Spring 2008

 

This project is the first one aimed at using English as a lingua franca rather than between students of Italian and students of English. For every native speaker of English, there are now 3-4 non-native speakers in the world. In this changing landscape English language students need to learn to effectively communicate with English speakers from many different cultures. This entails developing their intercultural competence. The aim of this project is to allow students to use their English to develop their knowledge and understanding of their own culture and other cultures as well.

N.B. The project was not carried out. The two institutions are going to try and organize an exchange for next year, 2009. In the meantime, the Padova-Sabanci exchange is a good example of an English as a lingua franca exchange.

 

Padova-Tulane Winter 2008

 

The Padova-Tulane project is an exchange in it's second year. This year it will involve Intermediate students of English at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Padova and pre-intermediate students of Italian at Tulane University.

 

Padova-Albany Fall 2007

 

This is an exchange between last-year Master's level degree students in English at the University of Padova, Italy, and students in Global Communications at the University of Albany, USA.

 

 

 

 

Padova-Tulane Spring 2007

The second round of exchanges between last-year Master's level degree students in English at the University of Padova, Italy, and students of Italian at Tulane University, USA. This was the first time we used Skype and the recording software Pamela in planned weekly Skype sessions.

 

Padova-Tulane Fall 2006

The first round of exchanges between last-year Master's level degree students in English at the University of Padova, Italy, and students of Italian at Tulane University, USA.

 

 

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End of course spritz with Padova students in May, 2007 ;-)

Last year's Tulane-Padova exchange was a very positive experience for all of those involved. Too bad our peers from the USA couldn't be there too.

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