Abstract
Telecollaboration refers to connecting geographically distant learners in intercultural contact via (a)synchronous communication tools. “Teletandem Brasil: Foreign Languages for All” (Telles, 2006) is a telecollaborative, pedagogical, and research project that has been the object of investigation of studies published under the formats of research articles, master’s theses, Ph.D. dissertations, books, and book chapters. This paper aims to present a descriptive map of peer-reviewed research articles on teletandem practice in Brazil. We selected articles that reported on empirical research from the Web of Science platform and the teletandembrasil.org website and, based on the EPPI reviewing system, analyzed 67 articles. We identified the following aspects of the articles: period of publication, language, research focus, and data analyzed. Our results indicate that (i) there has been a growing interest in the topic reflected in more published papers on teletandem; (ii) most articles are published in Portuguese and English; (iii) research on teletandem has focused on 11 different topics, the most popular ones being language learning and intercultural issues; and (iv) there is a diversity of data analyzed in the publications.
Highlights
In the last 20 years, we have seen a surge in interest for projects that promote collaboration between learners from different geographical locations under the guidance of educators with the aid of digital technologies (Lewis & O’Dowd, 2016; O’Dowd, 2018)
Even though some researchers recognize there is a diversity of aspects of teletandem learning that are being studied (Aranha & Cavalari, 2014; Cavalari & Aranha, 2016; Cavalari, 2018), there is not – to this date and the best of our knowledge – any paper that offers a general description of what has been published about teletandem practice in Brazil
Given the space constraints of the article, we do not present the complete descriptive map of publications on teletandem, but a link to it may be found in the appendix
Summary
In the last 20 years, we have seen a surge in interest for projects that promote collaboration between learners from different geographical locations under the guidance of educators with the aid of digital technologies (Lewis & O’Dowd, 2016; O’Dowd, 2018). 7) telecollaboration is a term used to refer to the pedagogical processes and outcomes of engaging learners in different geographical locations in virtual context together, mediated through the application of online communication tools such as e-mail, synchronous chat and thread discussion as well as tools of Web 2.0, such as wikis, blogs, social networking and 3D virtual worlds One of such projects is Teletandem Brasil: Foreign Languages for All (Telles, 2006), which connects Brazilian university students who are learning a foreign language to university students abroad who are learning Portuguese in synchronous video sessions. As suggested by Lewis and O’Dowd (2016), as telecollaboration becomes more popular for language learning, educators who are not familiarized with the practice may be interested in learning more about the projects, in this paper, about the studies on teletandem
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