Ana Carolina Freschi, Suzi Marques Spatti Cavalari
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Abstract
Teletandem (Telles, 2009) is a model of telecollaboration in which pairs of foreign language students from different countries meet regularly and virtually to learn each other’s languages. Within this context, participants are expected to help their partners learn by providing feedback. The multimodal nature of this type of environment, however, may offer different learning opportunities (Guichon & Cohen, 2016) and have an impact on feedback provision. This research aims at investigating peer corrective feedback in Teletandem in relation to the different modes. Using a case study approach, we describe how three Brazilians offered feedback to learners of Portuguese as a foreign language. Data used came from 20 Teletandem oral sessions that took place over a period of three years and were stored in MulTeC (Aranha & Lopes, 2019). Data analysis revealed that CF provision is characterized by reformulations, with a blurred distinction between recasts and explicit corrections due to a combination of multimodal strategies. Results also indicate that error correction may be more (or less) emphasized depending on how interlocutors combine multimodal resources. Pedagogical implications are discussed.
Teletandem (Telles, 2009) est un modele de telecollaboration par lequel des paires d’etudiants de langue etrangere originaires de differents pays se rencontrent regulierement de facon virtuelle pour apprendre les langues des uns des autres. Dans ce contexte, on s’attend a ce que les participants aident leur partenaire a apprendre en leur fournissant de la retroaction. La nature multimodale de ce type d’environnement peut, cependant, offrir diverses occasions d’apprentissage (Guichon & Cohen, 2016) et influencer la facon dont la retroaction est fournie. Le but de cette recherche est d’etudier la retroaction corrective par les pairs dans Teletandem par rapport aux differents modes. En se servant d’une approche par etude de cas, nous decrivons comment trois Bresiliens ont offert de la retroaction a des apprenants de portugais langue etrangere. Les donnees utilisees venaient de 20 sessions orales de Teletandem qui s’etaient deroulees sur une periode de trois ans et ont ete stockees sur MulTeC (Aranha & Lopes, 2019). L’analyse des donnees a revele que la fourniture de retroaction corrective se caracterise par des reformulations, qui ne distinguent pas tres bien entre des refontes et des corrections explicites, ce qui est du a une combinaison de strategies multimodales. Les resultats indiquent egalement que la correction des erreurs peut etre plus ou moins soulignee selon la facon dont les interlocuteurs combinent les ressources multimodales. On discute des implications pedagogiques.