Teletandem in German-Spanish Language Learning: Mediateca ENALLT – UNAM and University of Würzburg

Abstract

The teletandem is currently an important support in the learning of a foreign language, which has become a useful and efficient tool. The University of Würzburg and the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) participate in a project called Virtual Learning of Foreign Languages (AVLE in Spanish). The performance of students who learn Spanish and those who learn German is evaluated. The variable that is seen in the learning performance is the confidence with which the participants adapt situations, for example: they work with information in different cultural / communicative contexts: customs, national holidays and typical celebrations of their countries. Through learning diaries, it was possible to evaluate and ponder how the development of their learning process was. It was also possible to announce how their expectations were at the beginning, during the development and at the end of the project. Therefore, we intend to weigh the role of the mediateca of the National School of Applied Linguistics (ENALLT) and the Foreign Languages Teaching Center of the University of Würzburg.