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Comments provided by 33 participants on wikis, Pinterest, and journal entries were analyzed using a line-by-line interpretative approach (Charmaz, 2006). Data analysis revealed that while investigating studying and living abroad using Web 2.0 technologies, learners often remained in an ethnocentric stage of intercultural sensitivity (Bennett, 1993). However, upon the completion of reflective activities, many learners began to progress in their intercultural sensitivity, demonstrating a shift away from ethnocentric thinking.  \nKey words: Web 2.0 technology, Pinterest, Wiki, Intercultural Sensitivity, Spanish  \nIntroduction  \nWithin the past several decades, foreign language education has been impacted by the increase in globalization around the world (Kramsch, 2014) . Blommaert (2010) describes globalization as the rapid growth in the dispersing of“capital, goods, people, images and discourses around the globe”(p. 13) . As a result of this dispersion, today’s world consists of blended cultures and peoples. Additionally, with all of the technological advancements in the 21st century, people are able to connect with one another around the globe on a daily basis. Therefore, it has become increasingly important for foreign language education to focus not only on developing learners’communicative competence but also their interculturality. Intercultural competence (IC) is necessary so that learners may become “viable contributors and participants in a linguistically and culturally diverse society”(Moeller & Nugent, 2014 p. 1) .  \nA concept such as IC, however, can be difficult to operationalize in the foreign language classroom for several reasons. First of all, research in the field points to the difficulty of actually defining such a complex notion as culture, which is at the core of understanding IC (Moeller & Nugent, 2014) . Another aspect that adds to the complexity of cultivating IC in foreign language learning is the rapid pace of change that is characteristic of the 21st century. With instant access to information in a technologically advanced world, the concept of interculturality and how to develop it constantly changes (Moeller & Nugent, 2014) . Finally, the broad concept of intercultural learning and multiple frameworks used to assess IC add to the difficulty  \n148 Dimension 2016  \nof operationalizing it in the classroom. There is “no common yardstick” being used to currently measure the concept, thus making replication more difficult (GarrettRucks, 2014, p. 2) . In consideration of the aforementioned difficulties, the purpose of this study is to provide insight into the implementation of Web 2.0 pedagogical interventions intended to foster learners’ intercultural sensitivity (Bennett, 1993) .  \nReview of Literature  \nDeveloping IC in Instructed Language Learning  \nIn terms of developing learners’ IC in the foreign language classroom, previous literature frequently pointed to the use of various pedagogies focused on student interactions with native speakers. Examples included implementing virtual exchanges via telecollaboration (e.g. Ducate, Lomicka-Anderson, & Moreno, 2011; Ducate & Steckenbiller, 2013; Lee, 2009, 2010a, 2010b; Lee & Markey, 2014; Schenker, 2013), service-learning projects (Bloom, 2008), or long-term ethnography projects (Robinson-Stuart & Nocon, 1996) to name a few. Unfortunately, interaction with native speakers has not always been possible inside the foreign language classroom (Abrams, 2002) . Previous research showed IC often developed or increased most in advanced-level language courses or when studying abroad. 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