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NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING: THE PERSISTENCE OF STRUCTURALIST APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE IN ONLINE DISTANCE COURSES

Souzana Mizan
São Paulo University
Brazil
 

New technologies are considered nowadays an integrated part of social, school and classroom practices. The present paper studies a long distance course offered by the government of the state of São Paulo to high-school students enrolled in public schools. Our objective is to show that school practices, in this case, become regulation and regulatory practices. Moreover, although the students have the know-how, they rarely access the platform and a small number of students end up concluding the course and getting the diploma.
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