This study aims to report whether cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity took place after presentation exchanges between university students from Japan and Taiwan. A telecollaboration project was conducted between Taiwanese and Japanese university students in 2018. The researchers created a three-month intercultural communication video project as a part of a class activity for university students in Taiwan and Japan. Students interacted with their counterparts on a face-to-face online video conferencing platform through group LINE and exchanged two presentation videos through Flipgrid. Cultural awareness and online communication surveys were administered before and after the project. The results indicated that students significantly increased their cultural sensitivity and appreciation toward each other's culture. The research data also revealed that while the students explored the different cultures through the online interactional project, their communication styles were distinctive and their intercultural communication skills improved. On a larger scale, depending on the duration of a series of presentations, such a cross-cultural telecollaboration project not only promotes intercultural awareness but can promote intercultural communication skills and intercultural competence.
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