EDUCATIONAL CHAT IN SPANISH TEACHING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

ABSTRACT

This study aimed at describing the educational chat based on the compositional construction analysis, on the theme content and on its function. Regarding the analysis of genre, we verified the presence of five moments, which compositionally construct the educational chat gender. As for the subject content, we found that there were two thematic components: the first one was related to the operation, organization and implementation of the activities of the course; and the second one, related to personal knowledge between the participants. Regarding the role of educational chat, during course, we observed that participants considered it as an opportunity to solve doubts with the teacher or with colleagues, learn more about the participants of the course or practicipate to a real context of foreign language use.

Educational chat; Digital gender; Spanish as a foreign language