Promoting critical thinking in online intercultural communication

[EN] This paper investigates the educational experience arising from the use of an online discussion forum in an undergraduate blended learning language programme; to do this, it focuses on the type of cognitive processes that learners experience during a computer-mediated collaborative task and explores the potential causal relationship between the instructional strategies and the students’ cognitive activity. Findings indicate that the ‘teaching presence’ had a significant indirect influence on the outcome of the online intercultural interactions.Batardière, M. (2015). Promoting critical thinking in online intercultural communication. The EuroCALL Review. 23(1):3-10. doi:10.4995/eurocall.2015.4562.SWORD31023