Summary Writing 2

Blogging as a Tool for Intercultural Learning in a Telecollaborative Study

                   Blog writing is a tool that can be used to analyze participants’ intercultural learning.  

We can share, comment and give suggestion through blogs. We can also add knowledge from 

reading blogs.

                    Here is an explanation of what can be in a blog post evidence of intercultural

 attitudes, knowledge, skills, and critical awareness (Byram, 1997) that can be connected in blog

 posts.According to ICC Byram (1997) model, current research explores intercultural learning in 

telecollaborative projects are:

1.       People have good and bad feelings, also have a sense of curiosity and attitude to solve

        problems or justify misunderstandings (Byram, 1997).

2.       A  person's knowledge or  thought is derived from experience in life, but that can

        change  because of interaction with others in daily life.

3 & 4. Interpretation and discovery skills may be a more advanced intercultural learning  level . 

       They not only receive surface level knowledge. Instead, they try to interpret or 

        seek a deeper understanding.

    5.    One's consciousness arises from relationships with others, as they have point of view 

            then that can change after they interact with others which allows that point of view

            to be called critical awareness.

                    From the findings ,it concludes that by using blogs students can exchange ideas about their 

culture  so that students have a wider knowledge in intercultural learning.