Peer Correction and Learner’s Self Perception of Motivation and Autonomy in an Italian-Hungarian eTandem

The present paper analyses an eTandem language environment where four couples of students, each composed by an Italian and a Hungarian partner, interact following two different working modalities. In the first case the two couples work with a high degree of self management and autonomy: the peer tutoring takes place not only within the couple (student to student) but also couple-to-couple. In the second case, the interaction of the two couples is based on specific tasks assigned by their Italian and Hungarian language teachers acting as external counselors. The paper aims to compare two different tutoring systems (peer tutoring vs. external tutoring), investigating their reflections on error correction, on the development of L1 and L2 metalinguistic competence, and on the self perception of motivation and autonomy of the eTandem partners.