Language Learning Shifts and Attitudes Towards Language Learning in an Online Tandem Program for Beginner Writers

We present findings of a project that investigated the potential of an online tandem program to enhance the foreign language learning of two groups of school-aged beginner learners, one learning English in Colombia and the other learning Spanish in New Zealand. We assessed the impact of the project on students’ learning with a free writing activity done as pretest and posttest and used a semi-structured interview to explore their attitudes towards language learning and their perceived development of their native language. Data analysis indicated statistically significant gains in foreign language writing and positive attitudinal changes toward foreign and native language learning.

• Autores: Tolosa, Constanza; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía; Guevara, Diana Carolina
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66905
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66905; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67933/
• Palabra clave: 37 Educación / Education; 8 Literatura y retórica / Literature; Computer mediated communication; foreign language writing; language learning shifts; tandem language learning; aprendizaje de lenguas en tándem; cambios lingüísticos; comunicación mediada por computador; escritura en lengua extranjera
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional