Taking care of their positive online face? Reasons and strategy development
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2020-07-01ISBN
9782490057801Εκδότης
Research-publishing.netSource
Virtual exchange and 21st century teacher education: short papers from the 2019 EVALUATE conferencePages
71-84Google Scholar check
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This paper examines a peer virtual exchange project between students at the University of Cyprus and the University of Latvia. The main purpose of this project is to develop intercultural awareness. Through telecollaborative tasks, students are asked to interact in a common discussion space around elements related to their cultural values. The aim of this paper is to discuss students' strategies for these online exchanges. The hypothesis this paper seeks to examine is that students do not express themselves freely in the discussion forums in order to protect their personal and national image. We are thus interested in the public self-image of the students, known as 'face'. Our findings identified politeness strategies and we are interested in the main reasons for their acts towards positive and/or negative face.