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Using The Community Of Inquiry Framework To Analyze Emojis As An Emerging Language In An Online Educational Experience Via Whatsapp, Jennifer L. Reeves, Glenda A. Gunter, Junia Braga, Marcos Racilan

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With the ever-growing interest in WhatsApp as a social space to accommodate pedagogical initiatives, the role of emojis as an emergent Internet language in this social space needs to be better understood as mobile technologies have been integrated in education. With that in mind, this paper reports a study that employed an embedded correlational mixed methods design, and aimed to identify: the emojis used to support cognitive, teaching, and social presences in a teacher education course via WhatsApp; participants’ attitudes regarding the use of emojis, and their age and gender relation to this use. The data generated from the interactions …