Identity construction in telecollaborative activies

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ID5864480
AuthorsRodrigo Schaefer (0000-0002-2349-0175, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina), Christiane Heemann (0000-0001-6828-2962, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí)
Year2023
Volume25
Pagese023039
Publication date2023-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueETD - Educação Temática Digital (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1676-2592 • E-ISSN: 1676-2592
PublisherUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.20396/etd.v25i00.8667071
OpenAlexW4403242253
LanguageEN
References cited15

O'Dowd (2018) defines telecollaboration as the use of online technologies in the context of language teaching and learning between students who are geographically dispersed. For Risager (2007), interaction between individuals from different cultures gives rise to cultural representations and, as Rodrigues (2013) puts it, such an interaction triggers the participants' cultural identities. In this sense, this study sought to explore identity construction through cultural representations in telecollaborative activities. For the interpretative analysis, which was based on scholars such as Tajfel and Turner (1979), Woodward (2000), Salomão (2011) and Dervin (2014), data from telecollaborative sessions, a mediation session, an experience report, Facebook private messages and an interview were included. The outcomes revealed that the participants, through the telecollaborative activities, could highlight people's characteristics according to specific social groups, in addition to having had an occasion to express dissatisfaction regarding particular issues

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