Gêneros oclusos na telecolaboração: a variação na estrutura retórica da sessão oral de teletandem inicial

2019

JVE

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the first 15 minutes of ten initial Teletandem Oral Sessions (iTOS), which means the first virtual encounter among speakers of different languages who want to study the each other’s language. Our aim is to verify iTOS genre status within a telecollaborative learning environment. We understand genres as communicative events organized in standard structures used by members of a discourse community to achieve their communicative purposes (Swales, 1990) and assume that the teletandem context is composed of a specific community with shared objectives. A study of iTOS had first been proposed by Aranha (2014), who analyzed nine iTOS and identified some recurrence in their discoursal structure. Our data, ten iTOS, are part of a previous version of MulTeC (Multimodal Teletandem Corpus) (Aranha & Lopes, forthcoming) and participants are proficient in Portuguese and English. The video files were transcribed and the sessions were analyzed based on Aranha’s (2014) findings. We identified rhetorical organization for the sessions which was similar to Aranha’s, but varied depending on the learning scenarios, i.e. the learning context in which they occurred.

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confidence: 83%

“…to specific groups as different learning scenarios (Aranha & Leone, 2016, 2017, a concept that appears in Foucher (2010) and has been adapted to this telecollaborative project by Aranha andLeone (2016, 2017).…”

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Telecollaboration and genres: a new perspective to understand language learning

Rampazzo

2019

JVE

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“…However, the author only considered the participation of students and did not take into account the role of professors and researchers in the context. On that account, Rampazzo (2017) has already argued for a revision of Silva's (2012) findings so that the concept of teletandem community proposed by Silva would still be valid to describe what happens in this context nowadays among the people involved in the practice.…”

Section: Revisiting the Concept Of Community To Foster Its Applicabilmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These genres might occur in diverse pedagogical scenarios (as described previously), both in the integrated and semi-integrated modalities. Rampazzo (2017) considers the concept should incorporate both genres used and the other individuals engaged in the practice -professors, mediators, grad researchers.…”

Section: Teletandem Community: a Revision Of The Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this regard, emoticons, communication tools typical of virtual environments 10 , could be comprehended as specialized lexicon in any virtual written communication, but not only them, since there are other terms in the TC that could be considered specialized terminology. Rampazzo (2017) argues that the names given to the genres -teletandem oral session, for instance -used in teletandem community could also be viewed as specialized terminology because they are specific to this context. In effect, even the project name, teletandem, may not mean much to those who are not part of the community.…”

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Revisitar O Conceito De Comunidade Para Discutir Sua Aplicação a Contextos Telecolaborativos

Rampazzo

Alfa, rev. linguíst. (São José Rio Preto)

2019

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RESUMO: O objetivo deste artigo é discutir o conceito de comunidade em contextos multimodais de projetos telecolaborativos, específicamente o teletandem (TELLES, 2006). Comunidades discursivas (CD) são agrupamentos de indivíduos que se unem para atingir seus propósitos comunicativos por meio de gêneros (SWALES, 1990). Embora o conceito tenha sido extensivamente discutido em contextos acadêmicos, parece não haver estudos que envolvam o tema e sua importância para a telecolaboração. Uma tentativa nesse sentido é o trabalho de Silva (2012) sobre a comunidade teletandem (CT), no qual a autora investiga os estudantes que participam do projeto Teletandem Brasil: Línguas Estrangeiras para Todos. Partimos dos critérios elaborados por Silva para a definição de CT e nossa análise deriva de nossa observação intensa e criteriosa da prática de teletandem no laboratório de teletandem da UNESP - São José do Rio Preto. Os resultados indicam que os membros de comunidades que eventualmente se agrupam em contextos telecolaborativos tendem a serem regulados por regras locais e externas, engendrarem organizações complexas e compartilharem gêneros para alcançarem seus objetivos.

Towards a Working Definition of Negotiation in Telecollaboration: Analysis of Teletandem Oral Sessions

Colomb. appl. linguist. j

Rampazzo²

2022

As digital techonology advances, geographically distant learners have been engaging in cross-cultural communication and negotiation via telecollaborative projects. Research has shown that negotiation of meaning is crucial for effective communication in these scenarios, nonetheless, more studies are needed to investigate other types of negotiation, given its importance for establishing cooperation. This paper aims at exploring the negotiation patterns between dyads in 10 sessions selected from Multimodal Teletandem Corpus and provides a working definition of negotiation in telecollaboration. Participants, who were university students in Brazil and abroad and were enrolled in language classes, met online to help with practicing each other’s language and were expected to exchange information about themselves in the first synchronous session. Through a qualitative analysis of the transcripts of the 10 sessions, we identified moments in which the conversation was suspended to negotiate meaning, technology issues, separation of languages, and aspects related to the tasks requested by their professors. Our analysis shows that negotiation in telecollaboration may be motivated by aspects internal to the conversation, such as meaning, or by external factors, as with problems with equipments, tasks, or with deciding the language to speak. Findings suggest that negotiation serves an essential purpose as it allows participants to make collaborative decisions and resolve conflicts that, otherwise, could prevent conversation to continue. Results may prove useful for researchers and practicioners interested in telecollaboration, who design and guide participants through learning in such contexts.