Learning English in translocal exchanges in Instagram chat
Pratginestós, Cèlia
Masats, Dolors

Publicación: Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH International Academic Publishers, 2021
Resumen: This chapter analyses how social media-Instagram chats-is employed by a group of youth in Catalonia and in Greece for communicating in English as a lingua franca, as an extension of a translocal project initiated in their schools. We set out from the premise that learners' participation and willingness to use the language to communicate in this context can be attributed to a genuine, agentive interest in learning English, even though learning English is neither the immediate nor the main goal of the youths' communicative exchanges. Our study focuses on the plurilingual and multimodal procedures participants employ to organise participation, construct meaning and build relationala bonds. Our results suggest that learners' communication in the lingua franca is scaffolded by a channel they are well acquainted with-Instagram-and a shared code including emoji and multimodal resources. Additionally, we discuss the methodological and ethical challenges teachers and researchers face when supporting out- of- school digital spaces for learning and conducting research.
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Lengua: Anglès
Documento: Capítol de llibre
Materia: Learner agency ; Participation ; Turn-construction units (TCU) ; Plurilingual and multimodal communication ; Instagram chat ; Informal language learning
Publicado en: Learning English Out of School : An Inclusive Approach to Research and Action, 2021, p. 69-97, ISBN 978-3-631-86226-1

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