An experience of virtual linguistic exchange for the development of communicative competence

Abstract

This article presents the characteristics of a university virtual interaction project for the development of communicative competence for Spanish´s students as a foreign language, from the Marketing, Gestão e Contabilidade degree in Escola de Tecnologia e Gestão de Guarda (Portugal), and for Portuguese´s students as a foreign language of the degree in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada (Spain). Acknowledging the fact that linguistic exchanges result as an accelerating framework for learning a foreign language as well that collaborative learning encourages the students participation and motivation, we present in this article a didactic plan of virtual linguistic exchange to implement interuniversity collaboration between Portuguese and Spanish teachers together with students, aiming for increasing communicative competences, throughout activities of written expression and textual revision that results in activating the awareness of linguistic error and reflective learning.