A kollaboratív online nyelvtanulás lehetőségei és tanulságai két magyar mint idegen nyelvi projekt alapján
Collaborative online language learning: Potentials and lessons learnt based on two Hungarian as a foreign language projects

Croatian – Hungarian – Japanese convergences

Summary/Abstract: The study introduces snippets of a research result related to teaching Hungarian as a foreign language. The participants of the research were Hungarian teacher-trainees, Japanese and Croatian language learners, and it was conducted at the universities of Budapest, Osaka and Osijek. These two projects focused on intercultural communication competency and on the usage of ICT-tools. The interface for communication was provided by social media pages (LINE and Facebook). The topic centred tasks available on both computer and mobile devices were created by the teacher-trainees, and were solved by the language learners either in pairs or in teams. The last element of the projects was a survey completed by the participants. Based on the results of these projects, we elaborated on what was found useful by the participants, moreover what they found challenging. As expected, cultural mediation and real communication were proved to be among the strengths, as well as the practice gained by theusage of ICT-tools. The two student groups indicated the challenges in varied measures. Parallel with other international studies, the results of our research also proved that the teacher being in control is an inevitable element of the projects. However, the teacher being in control can bring a lively colour into language teaching and learning.

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