Virtual exchanges in teacher training. State of the art and challenges for language teaching
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This article presents a background review of research that has taken as its object, from different approaches and methodologies, a novel educational practice: virtual exchanges in teacher training. This pedagogical practice requires a review of the specialized bibliography that takes into account this constitutive heterogeneity when presenting advances in the field. In this sense, this article is organized around three dimensions: first, it starts from general research on virtual exchanges; Second, it investigates what has been studied in the field of teacher training. And, finally, as a result of the bibliographic review, the aspects that make these intercultural collaborative projects a significant practice of linguistic reflection and metacognition for future language teachers are pointed out; as well as the vacant questions that constitute a promising starting point to think about the challenges in language education.
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(c) Natalia De Luca, 2023
Natalia De Luca, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Profesora en Castellano, Literatura y Latín por el Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Joaquín V. González y magíster en Análisis del Discurso por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Actualmente, su investigación doctoral se centra, desde un abordaje sociolingüístico y multimodal, en el estudio de la conciencia lingüística crítica en formación docente.
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