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This chapter provides a description of the CoCo (Coventry Colmar) telecollaborative course. It illustrates the tasks designed and/or adopted for it, such as the Cultura Quizzes. It discusses how CoCo was fully integrated into the curriculum and assessment of both institutions involved and how students practised critical digital literacies for global citizenship though active learning with the creation of a group Intercultural Digital Learning Project (IDLP). It describes the materials and instruments used including more details about the politeness frameworks adopted and it illustrates how the analysis was performed. The chapter includes relevant figures and tables that help to illustrate the telecollaborative project structure, the politeness framework used to analyse the data and the breakdown of the relevant strategies.
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At Coventry University a BA Honours degree normally consists of 360 credits, 120 per year. Each student normally takes the equivalent of six 20-credit modules (roughly corresponding to subjects on their course) per year.
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Orsini-Jones, M., Lee, F. (2018). The CoCo Telecollaborative Project: Internationalisation at Home to Foster Global Citizenship Competences. In: Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58103-7_4
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