
This paper presents a triadic approach—instruction, institution and learning-- to course design for a COIL virtual exchange in a multicultural language class, from a critical and social justice perspective that mediates traditional archetypes concerning equity, diversity and respect.
AZ
United States
Mickey Marsee (PhD, Rhetoric) is Composition Faculty at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (Arizona, USA). Her teaching areas include integrative teaching strategies and theme-driven composition, monster theory, and American Realism and Naturalism. Current teaching and research includes virtual exchange as a high impact practice in composition for first-year students.
Colombia
Liliana Cuesta Medina (PhD in English Philology) works as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia). Her research areas include CALL, CLIL, teacher education, academic writing, and self-regulation in online/blended learning environments, on which topics she has published in indexed journals and conference proceedings.