Los alumnos erasmus en la Torre de Babel: el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras basado en las competencias comunicativas y en el uso de las TIC

Abstract

So far more than one million European students have had the possibility to study at other higher education institutions in Europe; this has opened immense perspectives for cultural and communicative knowledge and relationships. Europe consolidates, in practice, its identity in a global universe through mobility. This article presents the results regarding the communicative competencies and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of German exchange students. The data was extracted from two exhaustive, rigorous and methodical questionnaires related to communicative and ICT competencies completed by 20 exchange students from Romanisches Seminar of the Universität Bonn, their native language being German and learning Spanish as a foreign language. Generally, the results confirm that a stay in a foreign country increases the use of ICT and widely improves German native speakers' communicative competencies in Spanish.