Netspeak e participação em fórum de discussão online

• Autor(a) principal: Victoriano, Erisana Célia Sanches
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13984
• topic: Grupos de discussão pela Internet; Internet na educação; netspeak; participação; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

Online discussion forums are often used in education. Due to their complexities, online forums can facilitate or not the learning, it will depend on how they are used. So they have been the target for many researchers like Anderson et al (1997), Garrison et al (2000), Crystal (2001), and Pawan et al (2002) who recognize in online forums an important tool for cognitive development. But, if the objective is that the participants involved in the discussions have a constructive and collaborative learning, it is necessary to give some attention to its use. So this research intends to collaborate with the studies on the use of this tool in education. The idea for this paper came from the observation of the online course Leitura Instrumental via Internet I, offered by the Edulang research group of the Catholic University of São Paulo. We noticed that there was little interaction among the participants in the discussion forums. That was considered a problem because interaction is very important so that a constructive and collaborative educational practice can be developed. Crystal (2001) says a new language, called Netspeak, is emerging with the online discussion forums tool. This made us think that, as most of the course participants are not expert in this kind of digital communication, one of the aspects that could be affecting the students participation in the online discussions was linguistic adequacy. In this way, this research is divided in two distinct moments: one in which the investigations are directed at the students participation and another in which we investigate the linguistic manifestations, from the Netspeak point of view. The intention was to make a comparison between these two aspects and check their relations during the discussions. To direct the Netspeak investigation, this research counted on David Crystal s (2001) studies and to investigate the discourse features of Netspeak, more specifically the coherence, this research used the systemic-functional grammar concepts (Halliday e Hasan, 1990; Halliday, 1994; Eggins, 1994). In the end, it was possible to have a discussion about some linguistic aspects that can affect the students participation in online discussion forums. They are: the activities instructions, greetings and closings, and the use of quotations and anaphoric references