The Third Place

The following outline of Engestroem (1987) may help to get a first idea.

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“From the perspective of the third place, learners look critically at their own culture as well as the culture that is the focus of classroom study. Access to people who are members of this group (note: in this project, people who are members of another cultural group) … is facilitated by the availability of telecommunications technology.” (Kinginger, C., & Courvès-Hayward, A., & Simpson, V., 1999. A Tele-Collaborative Course on French-American Intercultural Communication. The French Review (72,5), pp. 853-866)

These authors quote Kramsch, C. (1993). Context and culture in language teaching (Chapter 8). New York: Oxford UP

In this project, it is intended to create a collaboration between learners from two different cultures who are learning the same language.