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ReDICo member Milene Mendes de Oliveira and her collaborators Tiina Räisänen (University of Oulu) and Tuire Oittinen (University of Jyväskylä) investigated the emergence of a ‘team culture’ in an international group of university students engaging in a virtual collaborative project. The students were involved in a simulation game in English as a lingua franca. The authors described multimodal practices used in the kick-off session of the game that aided the development of an inclusive and positive atmosphere in the group.
The open-access article can be found here.