In this article, we present some of the results of a qualitative research within the Project Teletandem Brazil about the process of supervision and pedagogic strategies used by a mediator in the mediation process of a pair of Teletandem partners. Based on the reflexive teaching paradigm, on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and on collaborative language learning, with special emphasis to tandem learning, we analyzed the contributions of the collaborative relationship established between a graduate student and a student-teacher. The results bring about implications to the field of language teacher education, in relation to a perspective of education within practice, evidencing the experience of collaborative learning in Teletandem as an opportunity for reflexive teacher education for both the student-teacher and the future teacher educator.
Teacher education; collaborative language learning; Teletandem; mediation
