Lifeworld orientation in the (a)synchronous WhatsApp interaction between Brazilian and Jordanian GFL learners Matthias Prikoszovits topic changes/shifts Brasilien und Jordanien Lebensweltorientierung WhatsApp-Tandems Brazil and Jordan Themenwechsel/-verschiebungen (a)synchrone schriftliche Interaktion (a)synchronous written interaction lifeworld orientation WhatsApp tandems (A)Synchronous written interaction via messenger services is still rarely the focus of GFL-related studies. This article focuses on a setting that allowed university GFL learners from Brazil and Jordan, as part of a virtual exchange project, to talk in WhatsApp tandems over a few weeks about topics relevant to their everyday lives, some of which they themselves determined. The article asks how GFL learners from two different regions of the world integrate their own lifeworlds into their interactions in WhatsApp tandems using topic changes/shifts and how this can create interactions between university GFL lessons and lifeworlds. For this purpose, interaction data resulting from the tandems as well as data resulting from a project evaluation in the form of an online survey are used. The interaction data is evaluated using qualitative conversation analysis. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2024 2024-09-24 2024-09-25 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0009-2024-315-86351 ger 3101186-X 4 1 (2024) 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/ziaf/article/download/8635/8436 10.17192/ziaf.2024.4.1.8635 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0009/2024/315/8635