Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance education
The main objective of this research was to describe the mechanisms for engagement with affordances that help to sustain written interpersonal interactions of students in online discussion forums of a virtual learning environment while they were learning English as a foreign language. The notion of a...
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| description | The main objective of this research was to describe the mechanisms for engagement with affordances that help to sustain written interpersonal interactions of students in online discussion forums of a virtual learning environment while they were learning English as a foreign language. The notion of affordance was discussed in this study according to three dimensions: (i) environmental, (ii) technological, and (iii) linguistic, associating a pragmatic theory to the latter (GREENO, 1994; VAN LIER, 2000; LAMY & HAMPEL, 2007). The research findings showed that the environmental and technological affordances contributed to the construction of students’ presence as well as of a learning community. New forms of online interactions afforded new forms of language learning, especially by the movement of relexicalization and gap-filling. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-360787a0635e4f73a2d3b1452547eb0f2022-12-22T00:27:31ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262020-01-0173118320410.5007/2175-8026.2020v73n1p18333632Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance educationAndreia Turolo da Silva0Universidade Federal do CearaThe main objective of this research was to describe the mechanisms for engagement with affordances that help to sustain written interpersonal interactions of students in online discussion forums of a virtual learning environment while they were learning English as a foreign language. The notion of affordance was discussed in this study according to three dimensions: (i) environmental, (ii) technological, and (iii) linguistic, associating a pragmatic theory to the latter (GREENO, 1994; VAN LIER, 2000; LAMY & HAMPEL, 2007). The research findings showed that the environmental and technological affordances contributed to the construction of students’ presence as well as of a learning community. New forms of online interactions afforded new forms of language learning, especially by the movement of relexicalization and gap-filling.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/66409affordancesinteração onlineaprendizagem de línguaseducação a distância |
| spellingShingle | Andreia Turolo da Silva Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance education Ilha do Desterro affordances interação online aprendizagem de línguas educação a distância |
| title | Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance education |
| title_full | Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance education |
| title_fullStr | Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance education |
| title_short | Affordances in the online interaction of English language learners in distance education |
| title_sort | affordances in the online interaction of english language learners in distance education |
| topic | affordances interação online aprendizagem de línguas educação a distância |
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