Interações de Teletandem institucional na perspectiva dialógica Bakhtiniana

Abstract

This paper is part of an ethnographic study that integrated the project “Teletandem and transculturality in online interaction in foreign languages by webcam”. Teletandem is a telecolaborative context for learning foreign languages, which, through Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, promotes intercultural contact between Brazilian students and students from different partner institutions around the world. In this work, which is currently being developed in a postdoctoral research, we analyze an excerpt of interaction between a student of a private university in the United States and a student of a Brazilian public university. The transcription is analyzed in the dialogical perspective grounded in the work of Bakhtin and the Circle. The results of the analysis show the constitution of subjects in the self-other relationship, through the dynamics that the participants establish throughout the teletandem process.