JALT2025 - Tokyo

Community of Inquiry in EFL Telecollaboration Contexts

Oct 31, 2025, 3:25 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Sociocultural Linguistics and Pragmatics Room 506

Speaker

Marian Wang (Konan University)

Description

Telecollaboration brings together language learners in geographically separate locations to build on their intercultural competence and foreign language skills through collaborative projects. The aim of this presentation is to explore how university students in Taiwan and Japan worked via telecollaboration on a project researching and presenting on controversial topics within an online community of inquiry (CoI). Findings in this study were analyzed through Garrison et al.’s (1999) CoI framework of cognitive, social, and teaching presence.

Summary

Telecollaboration brings together language learners in geographically separate locations to build on their intercultural competence and foreign language skills through collaborative projects. The aim of this presentation is to explore how university students in Taiwan and Japan worked via telecollaboration on a project researching and presenting on controversial topics within an online community of inquiry (CoI). Findings in this study were analyzed through Garrison et al.’s (1999) CoI framework of cognitive, social, and teaching presence.