Migrazioni virtuali: teletandem per l’apprendimento di una L2

Teletandem is included as an L2 learning context in different university degree courses in the world. It is a form of telecollaboration by which two students, proficient in two different languages, interact orally via Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology in order to develop their L2 competences. The current paper aims at describing a learning scenario based on teletandem as it is designed and experienced at the University of Salento. Together with teletandem sessions, the learning scenario includes different classroom tasks, performed collaboratively by students and teachers. For the tasks, video-recordings of teletandem sessions are used. Students are asked to select parts of the conversation with their partner in order to discuss linguistic and cultural communicative problems. The whole learning scenario mostly aims at enhancing students’ oral communication ability (both in monologues and in interaction). Thus, the following topics are discussed: the basic characteristics of teletandem interaction, digital resources used for the learning scenario, the role of the teacher as a mediator and how mediation sessions are organized.