Communicative Competences and the Use of ICT for Foreign Language Learning within the European Student Exchange Programme ERASMUS
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- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in European Educational Research Journal
- Vol. 10 (1), 83-101
- https://doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2011.10.1.83
Abstract
This article presents the results from a mainly statistical and comparative analysis regarding the communicative competences and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) of German exchange students. The data was extracted from two exhaustive, rigorous and methodical questionnaires related to communicative and ICT competences, which were completed by 20 exchange students from the Romanisches Seminar at the University of Bonn, Germany, their native language being German, whilst learning Spanish as a foreign language. Generally, the results confirm that a six-month stay in a foreign country increases the use of ICT and widely improves language skills, which can also be referred to as communicative competences in Spanish for native speakers of German.Keywords
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