Massive Open Online Courses and intercultural competence: analysis of courses fostering soft skills through language learning

ABSTRACT: This paper aims to survey language teaching MOOCs that promote intercultural competence (IC). Specifically, the survey aims to identify the keywords most relevant to MOOCs with IC components, the languages taught, the offering countries, and the embedded soft skills. The selection of keywords is important because they can indicate connection between different disciplines. After trialing a broader set of keywords in several rounds of initial search, we identified five keywords that are the most relevant to language education with IC components on MOOCs: culture, intercultural, cross culture, multi culture, and society. Then courses with these five keywords on language learning are selected for further analysis. The results are summarized as follows: (1) Most language teaching MOOCs are foun

SUBMITTER: Rai L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436504 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature