El presente estudio exploró la articulación pedagógica entre las Redes Sociales para el Aprendizaje de Lenguas (RESAL) y las clases presenciales de inglés en la licenciatura en lenguas extranjeras de una universidad pública colombiana. Mediante una investigación mixta, se recogieron datos a través de encuestas, un diario del investigador, grupos focales, fichas de aprendizaje (learning logs) y la grabación de las pantallas de los computadores de los estudiantes durante el uso de la RESAL Livemocha. Los resultados indican que el éxito de la integración pedagógica de este tipo de redes sociales en las clases depende del nivel de competencia comunicativa de los estudiantes, la capacidad del docente para adaptar las actividades de la RESAL, y las actitudes y creencias de los estudiantes sobre aprender lenguas en ambientes virtuales. Además, la preparación de clase, la presencia del profesor y la creatividad juegan un papel preponderante en la implementación. Las percepciones de los estudiantes indican que las RESAL contribuyen al desarrollo de competencias comunicativas, aunque también resaltan la desmotivación que producen las fallas técnicas. Con base en este ejercicio investigativo, el cual tuvo lugar durante un semestre académico, los docentesinvestigadores identifican etapas para la integración de este tipo de espacios educativos virtuales en clases presenciales de programas de formación docente.Palabras Clave: Redes sociales para el aprendizaje de lenguas, redes sociales educativas, inglés como lengua extranjera, formación de docentes, comunicación mediada por computadores.
The present study centers on exploring how different modes such as speech, gesture, gaze, body posture, and head movement are employed by an EFL teacher and his students during a Critical Learning Episode (CLE) (Davis, M., Kiely, R., and Askham, J. (2009). InSITEs into practitioner research: findings from a research-based ESOL teacher professional development programme. Stud. Educ. Adults 41: 118–137). CLEs are brief instances of classroom interaction where the instructor and the researcher believe that learning is being fostered or inhibited. This article is part of a larger qualitative multiple-case study that took place at a private Colombian University. The lesson was videotaped and then analyzed within a Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis framework (Norris, S. (2019). Systematically working with multimodal data: research methods in multimodal discourse analysis. Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken; Norris, S. (2020). Multimodal theory and methodology: for the analysis of (inter)action and identity. Routledge, London). Findings indicate that CLEs are created in a highly embodied, multimodal, and ecological manner through different modal configurations. Besides speech and writing, modes such as gestures, posture, gaze, and head movement played not a marginal, but prominent role, in performing various pedagogical classroom activities such as enhancing shared/focused attention, strengthening alignment, helping teachers and learners to visually make meaning of morphological and syntactical units, and serving as devices to check for understanding.
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