Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness: Research and Practice

Tushar Chaudhuri is senior lecturer for German as a Foreign Language at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. He has taught German as a Foreign Language to university students in India, Germany and Hong Kong. His research interests include the impact of new technology in the university language classroom, the role of multilingualism in foreign language acquisition and telecollaborative language learning.   Renia Lopez is an Assistant Professor at the department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her focus of interest is gestures, movements of the hands and arms co-occurring with speech, a modality used together with language to externalize the thought. Valérie Martinez is a Lecturer of French at The University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in Language and Culture Education. Her doctoral thesis is a multi-disciplinary dissertation on academic mobility and interculturality between Hong Kong and France. Her research areas focus on academic mobility,virtual mobility, interculturalism/interculturality, and discourse analysis.

Introduction.- Chapter 1: The ILLSA Project & Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Learning.- Chapter 2: The ILLSA Content: Designing material for collaborative work.- Chapter 3: The ILLSA Discourses: Are Healthy Cities different in French, German, Italian or Spanish?.- Chapter 4: The ILLSA Pedagogy: How to handle Feedback and does it help?.- Chapter 5: The ILLSA Scaffold: Students between Language Learning & Higher Ed Skills Development.