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Profile Issues in Teachers` Professional Development
Print version ISSN 1657-0790
Abstract
TOLOSA, Constanza; ORDONEZ, Claudia Lucía and GUEVARA, Diana Carolina. Language Learning Shifts and Attitudes Towards Language Learning in an Online Tandem Program for Beginner Writers. profile [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.1, pp.105-118. ISSN 1657-0790. https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v19n1.53955.
We present findings of a project that investigated the potential of an online tandem program to enhance the foreign language learning of two groups of school-aged beginner learners, one learning English in Colombia and the other learning Spanish in New Zealand. We assessed the impact of the project on students' learning with a free writing activity done as pretest and posttest and used a semi-structured interview to explore their attitudes towards language learning and their perceived development of their native language. Data analysis indicated statistically significant gains in foreign language writing and positive attitudinal changes toward foreign and native language learning.
Keywords : Computer mediated communication; foreign language writing; language learning shifts; tandem language learning.