Communication and Language Learning in Virtual Environments through an Eco-semiotic Lens

Alina Andreea Dragoescu Urlica (), Lulzime Kamberi () and Marta Boguslawska-Tafelska ()
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Alina Andreea Dragoescu Urlica: Lecturer, Banat’s USAMVB University “King Michael I of Romaniaâ€
Lulzime Kamberi: Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Tetovo
Marta Boguslawska-Tafelska: Assist. Prof., Å omza State University of Applied Sciences

Chapter 19 in World Lumen Congress 2021, 2022, vol. 17, pp 182-187 from Editura Lumen

Abstract: The paper explores the interface between the new theoretical approach of ecolinguistics and language educational practices in the new digital environments that we have plunged into during 2020-2021. From the standpoint of ecological communication and eco-semiotics, the exploration highlights its impact on language learning and education in general, as re-contextualized in the new digital spaces we have all been experiencing as educators and learners. The theoretical input from semiotics and conceptual linguistics on the one hand, and educational ecology on the other hand, is paired with a direct empirical analysis of the students’ language learning experience at the USAMVBT University of Timisoara, Romania, the University of Tetova, North Macedonia, and Lomza State University from Poland. Our aim is to better understand how to sustain students’ communicational skills and their overall adaptation to the emerging digitalised educational environment across fields of study.

Keywords: Eco-semiotics; sustainable communication; digital literacy; language learning; virtual environments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
ISBN: 978-1-910129-32-6
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DOI: 10.18662/wlc2021/19

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