Telecollaboration – Japan & Sweden

Learning the interactional dynamics of language teaching through telecollaboration: Bringing the future teachers of Japan and Sweden together

2023–2025
PI: Olcay Sert
Collaborators: Mika Ishino (Doshisha University & Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
Funded by MDU & JSPS

This project aims to develop telecollaboration activities and tasks within the framework of two pre-service teacher education courses in Sweden and Japan. Both courses aim at teaching undergraduate student-teachers the interactional dynamics of classroom-based teaching. The course syllabi in both countries focus on methods and interactional dynamics of language teaching and aim at equipping student-teachers with communicative skills that will help them in their profession.

Activities that encourage students from both countries to meet online and get engaged in hands-on tasks on classroom data and reflective practice have been designed. The exchange between the Swedish and Japanese students who come from different educational and classroom interaction cultures will hopefully facilitate an educational cultural understanding and will bring a strong international perspective to these courses.

Articles

Sert, O. & Ishino, M. (2025). Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction: A telecollaboration project between student-teachers of English in Sweden and Japan. TESOL Journal, 16(4). 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.70072

The project in the news and reports

Pedagog Mälardalen (på svenska)
Brobygge mellan utbildnings­kulturer genom klassrums­inter­aktion: Ett virtuellt utbyte mellan Sverige och Japan

Pedagog Mälardalen (in English)
Bridging Educational Cultures Through Classroom Interaction: A Tele­collaboration Project Between Sweden and Japan

Presentations

Sert, O. & Ishino, M. (2025). Noticing multimodal aspects of classroom interaction: A telecollaboration project between student-teachers in Sweden and Japan. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference 2025. 21-25 March 2025, Denver, USA.

Sert, O., Ishino, M., & Roux Sparreskog, C. (2024). Learning the interactional dynamics of language teaching through telecollaboration: Bringing the future teachers of Japan and Sweden together. Second Language Teacher Education (SLTED 2024) Conference. 4-6 September, 2024, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.