Teletandem language learning in a technological context of education: interactions between Brazilian and German students
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2015
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This paper presents data from a computer-mediated communication
study conducted between a group of Brazilian university students – from
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Goiás,
Campus Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil – who wanted to learn English, and a
group of German university students – from the University of Worms, in
Germany – who wanted to learn Portuguese. The cross-cultural bilingual
communication was conducted in the second semester of 2010 and involved
discussions on environmental issues. Adopting a qualitative perspective in
the analysis, the data were derived from conversation sessions through a
webconferencing software known as Openmeetings and through e-mails
and some written activities developed by the students. All these were
analyzed by means of sociocultural theory. Among the conclusions we
reached, we observed that the participants used the software features to
help them in their language learning process, discussed issues related
to environmental science, as well as topics related to their personal and
academic life. Regarding the languages used, the participants used English during the teletandem sessions as an anchoring language to assist their
partners in learning English itself and Portuguese, as well as introduced
the German language in the interaction sessions.
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Language learning, Teletandem, Environmental issues, Collaborative learning, Aprendizagem de línguas, Teletandem, Temas sobre o meio ambiente, Aprendizagem colaborativa
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SILVA, Suelene Vaz da; FIGUEIREDO, Francisco José Quaresma. Teletandem language learning in a technological context of education: interactions between Brazilian and German students. DELTA, São Paulo, v. 31, n. 3, p. 729-762, 2015. DOI: 10.1590/0102-445068781234723614. Disponível em: https://www.scielo.br/j/delta/a/4q4tjM9sdWQHGShLhDgLxzF/?lang=en. Acesso em: 6 fev. 2023.