Language on the network: the point of view of university students in the context of semi-present distance learning

• Grant number: 11/23111-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Fabiana Cristina Komesu
• Grantee: Michele Sangalli
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Based on a perspective of Bakhtin's theory of enunciation and of the French line in Discourse Analysis, we intend to study the concepts of language developed by university students enrolled in a semi-present distance learning course, engaged in verbal tasks in virtual discussion forum, taking into account (new) reading and writing practices conditioned by new digital technologies of information and communication (ICT). We are mainly interested in: (I) studying the concept of the text produced in accordance with (new) academic practices in the context of semi-present distance learning, (II) studying the relevance of the concept of support in the teachers-in-training's perceptions about language change, (III) studying how interdiscourse memory constitutes, in terms of textualization and history, the (re)formulation of utterances in enunciative situations practiced in a given institutional framework. (AU)