O uso de aplicativos no ensino da Língua Inglesa: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Abstract

The use of digital applications in the teaching of the English language has become increasingly recurrent, configuring itself in a different methodology for learning the English language. In this scenario, the present research had the general objective to identify, through a Systematic Literature Review, how the applications for learning English language have been used in the classroom. As specific objectives, we sought to identify the applications for the teaching of the English language analyzed in the surveys, highlight how the use of applications is made in the English language classes and present benefits and possible obstacles identified in the analyzed surveys. Regarding the methodology, it is a Systematic Literature Review, based on the survey of articles published between the period 2015 to 2020, in journals evaluated in the Qualis CAPES system. The results obtained revealed a variety of applications used for teaching the English language, with free versions, but with only a few functionalities available to users in these versions. Among the main ways of using these applications in the classroom, the use of resources such as games, music, videos, texts, translation, writing, vocabulary and pronunciation stands out, being essential the mediation of the teacher for their use, especially in the face of the need to adapt the content worked in class.