Flipgrid, a video app for virtual exchange, propinquity, and language learning
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In virtual exchanges, the first contact between students is a key moment since it determines the way in which students will interact with each other throughout the learning process. The Flipgrid app can be a useful tool to develop a first contact in both telecollaboration projects and in digital educational contexts. The objective of this article is to explore the technical, communicative, and effective strategies that the students who participated in the HI-UB telecollaboration project during the spring semester of 2019 used in their first interactions to achieve proximity. The data were obtained both from the video recordings made in Flipgrid by 22 students of the Master's program of the University of Barcelona and 11 students of Spanish as a foreign language from the University of Iceland, as well as their reflections. The results show that this first asynchronous video meeting was useful, as it helped them reduce anxiety, provided a good emotional atmosphere, and encouraged their motivation towards the subsequent tasks of the telecollaboration project.
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