Institutional Integrated Teletandem: What have we been learning about writing and peer feedback?

ARANHA, Solange; CAVALARI, Suzi Marques Spatti

doi:10.1590/0102-445039175922916369

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ARTICLES Part II: Teletandem: the pedagogical realm • DELTA 31 (3) • Dec 2015 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-445039175922916369 copy

Institutional Integrated Teletandem: What have we been learning about writing and peer feedback?

Teletandem Institucional Integrado: O que aprendemos sobre produção escrita e correção por pares?

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ABSTRACT

We define institutionally integrated teletandem (iiTTD) as a series of teletandem sessions that are embedded in regular foreign language lessons, so that such lessons both feed and are fed by teletandem practice. In this paper, we analyze prospective Brazilian teachers correcting American students' writing productions in Portuguese during their participation in an iiTTD. We address issues about how pre-service FL teachers (participants in iiTTD) offer writing feedback to their peers. Data included all the texts written and revised during the length of their partnership. Results show that most participants tend to correct their iiTTD partners' written productions in a direct way, focusing mainly on language form and according to their beliefs and experience as learners.

Key-words:
teletandem; writing process; corrective feedback; foreign language learning

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	TTD	iiTTD
Time and place of interactions (sessions)	Partners choose the most convenient time and place.	Sessions always happen at the university Teletandem lab within class schedule both in Brazil and the United States.
hemes used during participants´ conversations	Participants are responsible for deciding whether they want to establish a specific theme beforehand.	Sessions are supposed to begin with the feedback of revised texts. After doing so, participants may choose whether to continue on the text topic or change topics.
Tasks to be developed prior to sessions	None, unless participants decide to do so.	Written production about themes related to the FL class discussion. Participant A sends a text to his/her partner prior to the session. The partner should correct and comment the text in various levels. The beginning of the next session is supposed to be devoted for discussing the corrected version in terms of form and content.
Process assessment and feedback	Assessment and feedback are only provided if participants agree to do so.	Participants are graded on iiTTD activities.
Particpants´ support	The participants may, if they wish, have help from a teacher or graduate student.	Participants should report to their language professor (and grad students who help develop the activity).
Data collection	Individually carried out if the partner is involved in research.	Collectively carried out. All participants are involved in collecting data after each session in the iiTTD lab. Computers are specially fed with recording programs.