La dimension idioculturelle des micro-communautés d’apprentissage en ligne”. Lidil Revue (original) (raw)

2007, Lidil Revue, Laboratoire LIDILEM Université Stendhal de Grenoble Edition

This paper describes the experience of an online intercultural language learning community. American and Italian students in Higher Education participate in this intercultural project. This study analyzes the qualitative data collected in the online learning environment by using the KUFAT (Known culture, Usable culture, Functional culture, Appropriate culture, and Trigger event) framework elaborated by Fine (1969). This framework aims at identifying the different negotiation and mediation patterns that may occur in such online learning environment. The study found that the complex model of interactions among the members of such specific community/communities (C1, C2, C3) allowed the development of a C4, which may not exist otherwise because it is the unique outcome of the social construction of each group of learners, namely its "Idioculture".

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