Teletandem and telepresence: Rethinking the cultural component in language teaching and language teacher education

Autor: Ana Cristina Biondo SALOMÃO
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, Vol 31, Iss 3, Pp 781-800 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1678-460X
0102-4450
DOI: 10.1590/0102-4450988061656980825
Popis: ABSTRACT This articles discusses some of the results of a qualitative ethnographic research on foreign language teacher's conceptions of culture in an extension course for continuing education in the virtual collaborative learning context of "Teletandem Brazil: foreign languages for all", UNESP. The results have implications for the fields of language teaching and learning mediated by new technologies and teacher education. They suggest that telepresence in teletandem provided a means for dialogically undergoing the complexities of cultural experiences. Grounded in real world interaction, these experiences can lead to the change of the knowledge base of language teacher education for intercultural communication and the teaching and learning of culture. Culture can, then, be dissociated from the idea of a homogeneous, fixed and transparent body of knowledge.
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