Teaching/Learning languages in teletandem: spaces for autonomy and reflection

Authors

  • Daniela Nogueira de Moraes Garcia

Keywords:

foreign languages, telecollaboration, autonomy, reflection.

Abstract

This paper focuses on teletandem telecollaborative practice aiming at maximizing the teaching and learning foreign languages and investigating the spaces created for autonomy and reflection. Teletandem is a new context for learning languages in which students are paired up and help each other to learn the language. A qualitative ethnographic study was conducted from partnerships of Brazilian and American students. Based on e-mails, informal conversations, written reports and field notes taken at the Teletandem Laboratory, the results have shown that autonomy is gradually experienced by the partners as they take responsibility for their learning. Teletandem has also proved to be a context which fosters reflective actions.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Garcia, D. N. de M. (2016). Teaching/Learning languages in teletandem: spaces for autonomy and reflection. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 41(2), 481–494. Retrieved from https://revistas.gel.org.br/estudos-linguisticos/article/view/1174

Issue

Section

Linguística Aplicada ao Ensino de Línguas