Ruby Vurdien

I have been an EFL teacher for over thirty years and I am also a researcher. My areas of interests are telecollaboration and intercultural learning and the application of ICT to language learning, a subject in which I have published several articles and book chapters. I have participated in many workshops related to teacher training and I enjoy exchanging ideas with teachers as well as trying out innovative techniques in the language classroom.

Publications

Technology-Mediated Language Learning and Teaching
Technology-Mediated Language Learning and Teaching
Ruby Vurdien, Wendy Chambers. © 2025. 320 pages.
In today's rapidly evolving educational landscape, language educators face the daunting challenge of effectively integrating advanced digital technologies into their teaching...
Intercultural Learning via Videoconferencing: Students' Attitudes and Experiences
Intercultural Learning via Videoconferencing: Students' Attitudes and Experiences
Ruby Vurdien, Pasi Puranen. © 2020. 20 pages.
Although asynchronous communication tools have traditionally been used in online interactions, recently increasing popularity has been noted in the application of synchronous...
Enhancing Students' Intercultural Competence and Learner Autonomy via Facebook Telecollaboration
Enhancing Students' Intercultural Competence and Learner Autonomy via Facebook Telecollaboration
Ruby Vurdien, Pasi Puranen. © 2020. 21 pages.
This chapter reports on a Spanish-Finnish telecollaborative task-based study that was conducted with a view to exploring students' intercultural learning experience via...
Enhancing Writing Skills via Mobile Learning and Wikis
Enhancing Writing Skills via Mobile Learning and Wikis
Ruby Vurdien. © 2020. 23 pages.
This chapter reports on how a group of advanced EFL students in a private language school in Spain employed their smartphones and wikis to create a learning environment outside...
A Spanish-Finnish Telecollaboration to Develop Intercultural Competence and Learner Autonomy
A Spanish-Finnish Telecollaboration to Develop Intercultural Competence and Learner Autonomy
Ruby Vurdien, Pasi Puranen. © 2019. 19 pages.
Telecollaboration enables students from different geographical locations to interact in a more authentic environment, share their views with their partners, create profiles as...
Mobile Assisted Vocabulary Acquisition and Wikis to Enhance Writing Skills
Mobile Assisted Vocabulary Acquisition and Wikis to Enhance Writing Skills
Ruby Vurdien. © 2019. 24 pages.
This project examined how a group of advanced-level EFL students read articles on their smartphone to acquire new vocabulary which they later inserted in their essays on wikis....
Enhancing Students' Intercultural Competence and Learner Autonomy via Facebook Telecollaboration
Enhancing Students' Intercultural Competence and Learner Autonomy via Facebook Telecollaboration
Ruby Vurdien, Pasi Puranen. © 2018. 21 pages.
This chapter reports on a Spanish-Finnish telecollaborative task-based study that was conducted with a view to exploring students' intercultural learning experience via...
Intercultural Learning via Videoconferencing: Students' Attitudes and Experiences
Intercultural Learning via Videoconferencing: Students' Attitudes and Experiences
Ruby Vurdien, Pasi Puranen. © 2018. 19 pages.
Although asynchronous communication tools have traditionally been used in online interactions, recently increasing popularity has been noted in the application of synchronous...