Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem Brasil
Although there is a move toward open data, with research funding bodies more frequently requiring data management plans and dissemination strategies, the data management challenges inherently linked to virtual exchange research are understudied. Data collection is often reported upon in papers addre...
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| author | Solange Aranha Ciara R. Wigham |
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| description | Although there is a move toward open data, with research funding bodies more frequently requiring data management plans and dissemination strategies, the data management challenges inherently linked to virtual exchange research are understudied. Data collection is often reported upon in papers addressing interaction analysis or language development, but little attention has been paid to offering critical discussion of data collection and structuration methods or practical advice to encourage data/corpora dissemination. This paper reports on two phases of the Multimodal Teletandem Corpus project (Aranha & Lopes, 2019) that structured 581 hours of video data from Portuguese-English teletandem sessions, 351 chat logs, 956 written productions exchanged between the partners (original, revised, and corrected versions), 91 initial and 41 final questionnaires, and 666 learning diaries. We describe the data management problems faced that included the organization of data collected, ethical consent, management of a large quantity of data, inclusion of sociolinguistic information, expansion of learning theories, and the solutions found. We then outline data management planning steps that, consequently, are being introduced for future telecollaboration instantiations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-166bd7e56b124bc3b3ff223e75b3cd592022-12-21T22:04:41ZdeuUniversity of Groningen PressJournal of Virtual Exchange2647-48322020-08-013133810.21827/jve.3.3574825586Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem BrasilSolange Aranha0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-1875Ciara R. Wigham1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9704-1906UNESP (São Paulo State University), FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation)Université Clermont Auvergne: Clermont-Ferrand, AuvergneAlthough there is a move toward open data, with research funding bodies more frequently requiring data management plans and dissemination strategies, the data management challenges inherently linked to virtual exchange research are understudied. Data collection is often reported upon in papers addressing interaction analysis or language development, but little attention has been paid to offering critical discussion of data collection and structuration methods or practical advice to encourage data/corpora dissemination. This paper reports on two phases of the Multimodal Teletandem Corpus project (Aranha & Lopes, 2019) that structured 581 hours of video data from Portuguese-English teletandem sessions, 351 chat logs, 956 written productions exchanged between the partners (original, revised, and corrected versions), 91 initial and 41 final questionnaires, and 666 learning diaries. We describe the data management problems faced that included the organization of data collected, ethical consent, management of a large quantity of data, inclusion of sociolinguistic information, expansion of learning theories, and the solutions found. We then outline data management planning steps that, consequently, are being introduced for future telecollaboration instantiations.https://journal.unicollaboration.org/article/view/35748corporateletandemtelecollaborationdata managementdata collectionlearning and teaching corpora (letec) |
| spellingShingle | Solange Aranha Ciara R. Wigham Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem Brasil Journal of Virtual Exchange corpora teletandem telecollaboration data management data collection learning and teaching corpora (letec) |
| title | Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem Brasil |
| title_full | Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem Brasil |
| title_fullStr | Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem Brasil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem Brasil |
| title_short | Virtual exchanges as complex research environments: facing the data management challenge. A case study of Teletandem Brasil |
| title_sort | virtual exchanges as complex research environments facing the data management challenge a case study of teletandem brasil |
| topic | corpora teletandem telecollaboration data management data collection learning and teaching corpora (letec) |
| url | https://journal.unicollaboration.org/article/view/35748 |
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