Information and Communication Technologies and online Spanish teaching: analyzing some discourses of virtual subjects offered by UAB-UESPI in its e-learning Undergraduate Spanish Teaching Program

Abstract

This article presents a comparative analysis of the discourses produced in the disciplines Culture of Spanish-speaking people, Supervised Practice IV, Spanish Literature I and Spanish Language IV, which are part of the Language Arts (Spanish) online course offered by UAB-UESPI. It focuses on the production of meanings about the methodology of Spanish teaching at the level of an undergraduate online course. To do so, it analyzes the presence of enunciation strategies in the way these disciplines show, interact and seduce students. The study adopts the Discourse Analysis as its methodological and theoretical orientation and is developed following a qualitative and interpretative approach. In order to discuss the concepts of distance education, network society, technology, digital literacy and virtual environment, we rely upon the reflections proposed by Kenski (2007), Preti (2005), Castells (1999), Dalmonte (2009) Lévy (1993), Snyder (2009) . Besides, we discuss the studies developed by Bakthin (2003), Foucault (2009), Joly (2005) and Pinto (2002) to better understand the concepts of language, subject, enunciative heterogeneities and speeches. Finally, we consider the Theory of Social Discourses proposed by Pinto (2002), and the concept of Reading Contract developed by Verón (2004).