Virtual exchange is a well-known pedagogical approach in foreign language (FL) education which involves engaging classes in online intercultural collaboration projects with international partners as an integrated part of their educational programmes. This paper begins by reviewing e-tandem and telecollaborative approaches to virtual exchange which are currently being used extensively in FL education and presents two case studies which illustrate the common learning outcomes and limitations of such approaches. I then propose an alternative model of virtual exchange which maintains many of the key characteristics of earlier approaches but which incorporates the principles of global citizenship education and which moves away from bilingual–bicultural approaches. I conclude by outlining the main characteristics of this model and presenting some examples of how this approach could be put into practice.

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全球公民教育虚拟交流的跨国模式

虚拟交流是外语 (FL) 教育中一种众所周知的教学方法，它涉及与国际合作伙伴一起参与在线跨文化合作项目中的课程，作为其教育计划的一个组成部分。本文首先回顾了当前在 FL 教育中广泛使用的虚拟交流的电子串联和远程协作方法，并介绍了两个案例研究，说明了这些方法的共同学习成果和局限性。然后，我提出了一种虚拟交流的替代模型，它保留了早期方法的许多关键特征，但它融合了全球公民教育的原则，并且远离了双语-双文化方法。