Download Book: Emerging identities in virtual exchange
Emerging identities in virtual exchange
The study discussed in this book shows how online learner identities are discursively constructed between the participants and that these identities aredynamic and fluid. The author carefully outlines how the actions of the ‘teachers’(facilitators in this case), the online platform, and even the local environments of the participants can affect the outcomes, and identity construction of the participants, during dialogue-based learning sessions in an online environment. The arguments are laid out for a critical interrogation of the predominant discursive construction of telecollaborative participants’ identities in static and essentialist terms – identities which are often ‘marked’ through a focus on national languages, identities, and cultures.
