Learning English in translocal exchanges in Instagram chat
- Autores: Cèlia Pratginestós, Dolors Masats Viladoms
- Localización: Learning English Out of School: An Inclusive Approach to Research and Action / coord. por Emilee Moore, Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein, 2021, ISBN 978-3-631-86226-1, págs. 69-97
- Idioma: inglés
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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.
