Online education in Spanish teaching: A research-training in cyberculture for/with academics.
Spanish teaching/ learning, Online Education, Cyberculture.
The relationship between humans and technology in cyberculture has transformed the way we interact in physical and informational spaces. We no longer need to be in the same physical environment to share knowledge. It is within this context that the central question of this research emerges: How can online education, within the context of research-formation in cyberculture, contribute to the teaching and learning of Spanish for/with academics in the Research Group Teaching and Cyberculture, whose participants aim to produce and communicate in the additional language? Methodologically, we are anchored in research-formation in cyberculture (MACEDO, 2020; SANTOS, 2019; JOSSO, 2004; LÉVY, 1999; LEMOS, 2015; SANTAELLA, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2024) and in complex thinking (MORIN, 2005a, 2005b), with the goal of developing a device for the teaching of Spanish at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, whose instructional design addresses the academic needs of cultural practitioners and interprets the data produced by and with teacher-researchers and student-researchers in our synchronous meetings and asynchronous mediations, carried out in person, through WhatsApp, and via the Spanish for Academics Blog. We hope that the discussions raised will lead to subsuming notions that account for the specificities of our practitioners, such as the role of emotions in learning, the age barrier, the "English vs. Spanish rivalry," and the "myth of ease" regarding closely related languages.