English Language at Hand: Online english practice in times of social distancing
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https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2021.56893Keywords:
Transdisciplinarity, Complexity, English language teaching-learning, M-learning.Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the urgency, which could already be found in face-to-face school settings, for the development of teaching activities and practices with fruitful teaching-learning strategies for a new, exclusively virtual educational environment. It has also highlighted the importance that teaching practices reflect the needs of contemporaneity for an in vivo knowledge construction (NICOLESCU, 2013), which is fluid, adaptable, ever-changing. In addition, it has brought the need for teaching practices to deal with aspects of life that are sometimes excluded from the educational environment, such as uncertainty and unpredictability (MORIN, 2015). Taking such context into account, we carried out the research presented herein, which was interpreted in light of the complex hermeneutical-phenomenological approach (FREIRE, 2017). The teaching-learning experience that is the object of this research was developed by articulating elements of m-learning (SACCOL et al., 2011), complexity (MORIN, 2015), and transdisciplinarity (NICOLESCU, 2013). It was carried out for two weeks on the virtual environment of WhatsApp with seven adult learners of different proficiency levels.
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