Teletandem within the Context of closely-related languages: a Portuguese-Spanish interinstitutional experience

Authors

  • Kelly Cristiane Henschel Pobbe de Carvalho UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
  • Rozana Aparecida Lopes Messias UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
  • Anelly Mendoza Días Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Keywords:

Teletandem, Teaching-learning of Portuguese/Spanish, teacher development.

Abstract

This paper is part of an ongoing research project aimed at observingthe ways that Brazilian undergraduate students who are majoring inPortuguese and Spanish as part of a Foreign Languages and Literatures(FLL) degree program organize and implement the teaching ofPortuguese for Spanish speakers within a teletandem context. We soughtto evaluate the organization of the content of Portuguese language thatthey are teaching and the impact made by teletandem practices on theprofessional development of these student-teachers in both languages.Methodologically, the study is grounded on critical qualitative research.Data analysis suggests that, because Portuguese an d Spanish are closelyrelated languages with a high level of inter-comprehension, the virtuallearning context of teletandem requires the presence of a teacher-mediatorto conduct the mediation sessions with focused attention to contrastinglinguistic and cultural aspects between both languages.

Published

2015-12-01

How to Cite

Carvalho, K. C. H. P. de, Messias, R. A. L., & Días, A. M. (2015). Teletandem within the Context of closely-related languages: a Portuguese-Spanish interinstitutional experience. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 31(3). Retrieved from https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/delta/article/view/26402

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