As Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação para o ensino aprendizagem em língua inglesa no ensino fundamental anos finais: uma abordagem com genêros textuais digitais

Abstract

Currently, society is undergoing major transformations, among which we can highlight those conducted by Information and Communication Technologies - ICTs, which reflect on the daily lives of subjects and on the uses they make of language, focusing on the school environment as teaching tools pedagogical. Authors such as Lévy (1996,1999), Koch (2006,2009) and Bezerra (2009) presented discussions about new ways of communicating and interacting through social networks, as well as Marcuschi (2010), Freire (2003), Xavier (2000) and Araújo (2011) state that the spread of the Internet has caused changes in the population's culture. Thus, the present work aims to demonstrate how information and communication technologies can help the English language teacher and their students in the teaching-learning process about digital text genres, compared with traditional text genres, making use of social networks Facebook and WhatsApp as mediators of these studied digital genres. From this perspective, the engagement of students in activities developed both with the study of traditional textual genres and with digital genres was analyzed, pointing out the potential and maturity of communication, writing and speaking in English. The execution of the study was developed with bibliographic research and action research. As for the approach of the type of research, it is of a qualitative character and, in relation to the intended objectives of the research, it is of the exploratory type. The corpus of this research is the study of social networks, especially Facebook and WhatsApp, using them to promote the learning of textual genres through writing and orality, considering hypertexts as the main source of development and elaboration in the process interactive and communicative in the school context. From this perspective, the engagement of students in activities developed both with the study of traditional textual genres and with digital genres was analyzed, pointing out the potential and maturity of communication, writing and speaking in English. Given some information from the research and what was observed, students showed to feel more motivated to produce written and oral development using technological resources, as well as the massive use of social networks.