Abstract:
The subject of this article is the interactional dynamics in virtual classrooms, with emphasis on oral resources used in written texts produced by the teacher. The objective of this discussion is to analyze the use of those resources as triggering elements on the effect of proximity between teacher and student in virtual classrooms, which are precisely known by the spatiotemporal distance among the interactants. Therefore, the research is based on the principles of Conversation Analysis, focusing specially in the concepts of interaction, spoken and written texts. Based on such principles, we affirmed the interactional dynamics in virtual classrooms is established and sustained most by the usage of elements and linguistic constructions that, in the medially written text, simulates the proximity among the interactants. Thereby, the interactional dynamics is affected in virtual classrooms by the produced effect of proximity.
Keywords:
Interaction; Spoken text; Written text; Distance education