The interlanguage development in the spanish learning as foreign language in Teletandem under the View of the Complexity Theory

Abstract

This article presents, under the perspective of Complexity Theory, the characteristics of the learning process of Spanish as a foreign language in Teletandem. Data were collected from two pairs of Portuguese-Spanish interagents, who were engaged in a systematic and regular interaction, based on the tandem principles. It was found that the learning experience is developed with the peculiarities that arise from the context, agents, members and their nuances, which revealed the presence of a "shallow space" between the systems of native and foreign languages.

Keywords

• Complexity
• Teletandem
• interlanguage