LA COMUNICACIÓN ENTRE ESTUDIANTES Y DOCENTES EN TIEMPOS DEPANDEMIA: APROXIMACIÓN A LAS CONSIGNAS EN ENTORNOS VIRTUALES DEENSEÑANZA APRENDIZAJE EN EL NIVEL SUPERIOR (ARGENTINA)

Abstract

Classroom prompts are an omnipresent genre in the educational field and their production is oneof teachers’ daily tasks. Through these texts, different interpersonal bonds between teachersand students are fostered. This work analyzes the discursive features that characterize teacherprompts included in educational platforms such as Moodle. Also, it inquiries into the existenceof potential changes in the strategies used by teachers in the construction of prompts in thecontext of the pandemic by COVID-19. This exploratory study is carried out from a sociolinguisticand pragmatic perspective. For corpus constitution we have worked with the guidelines of virtualethnography, in particular with the technique of participant observation, in three undergraduateprograms of three Argentine universities and with surveys directed to teachers and universitystudents. Preliminary results show an increase in the number of prompts included in thesevirtual educational environments, as well as a strategic shift in the discursive formulation ofthese texts towards less formal constructions and the use of closer forms of address, aspectsthat bring them closer to the oral prompts of face-to-face classes.