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This study was developed under the assumption that, currently, transnational digital contact can develop intercultural competence, providing opportunities for people's participation in authentic literacy and sociodiscursive events in discursive contexts wider than those possible in offline contexts. Taking as desirable and potentially innovative these opportunities in the education of future English teachers, the study aimed first, to analyze representations of national identity in the context of these computer-mediated interactions and, second, to investigate the main facilities and barriers imposed by the software chosen for the establishment and continuity of these transnational relations. Three Brazilian students from a Liberal Arts course at a state university in the Midwest of Brazil established contact with foreigner adults on Facebook and interacted with them in English for six months under non-participant observation of the researcher. The corpus consisted of the register of these interactions, collected basically by the subjects themselves, with a total 9.320 words. For the triangulation of data it was considered transcripts of three hours of semi-structured interviews with Brazilian participants and preliminary results of questionnaires answered before the observation. A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach was used to unveil linguistic organization and ideological reproduction of national speeches in the transition to the online international context (interlocutor). Principles of the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE) were additionally used to identify stereotypes and collective identities involved in these online interactions. The results suggest a hybridization of discourse strategies taken from both offline contexts and online contexts with its multimodal resources. The participants used stereotypes in their speeches that come from big cities where globalization dynamics are generated, both at a regional scale (southeastern Brazil) and worldwide (the U.S.A.). The lack of critical views verified in the discourse and context observed indicates the need for projects that articulate an education for non-unilateral globalization and an education for foreign language teachers and citizens.
This study was developed under the assumption that, currently, transnational digital contact can develop intercultural competence, providing opportunities for people's participation in authentic literacy and sociodiscursive events in discursive contexts wider than those possible in offline contexts. Taking as desirable and potentially innovative these opportunities in the education of future English teachers, the study aimed first, to analyze representations of national identity in the context of these computer-mediated interactions and, second, to investigate the main facilities and barriers imposed by the software chosen for the establishment and continuity of these transnational relations. Three Brazilian students from a Liberal Arts course at a state university in the Midwest of Brazil established contact with foreigner adults on Facebook and interacted with them in English for six months under non-participant observation of the researcher. The corpus consisted of the register of these interactions, collected basically by the subjects themselves, with a total 9.320 words. For the triangulation of data it was considered transcripts of three hours of semi-structured interviews with Brazilian participants and preliminary results of questionnaires answered before the observation. A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach was used to unveil linguistic organization and ideological reproduction of national speeches in the transition to the online international context (interlocutor). Principles of the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE) were additionally used to identify stereotypes and collective identities involved in these online interactions. The results suggest a hybridization of discourse strategies taken from both offline contexts and online contexts with its multimodal resources. The participants used stereotypes in their speeches that come from big cities where globalization dynamics are generated, both at a regional scale (southeastern Brazil) and worldwide (the U.S.A.). The lack of critical views verified in the discourse and context observed indicates the need for projects that articulate an education for non-unilateral globalization and an education for foreign language teachers and citizens.
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