Contributos das tecnologias digitais para a aprendizagem da língua Inglesa

Abstract

We know that the world is constantly changing and the use of new digital technologies in different environments is essential, since they are present in the dailypeople’s life and why do not bring them into the school environment as another tool to improve the teaching-learning of the students? It was thinking about it that our theme was chosen.We highlight here the works of Jorge (2014), Moran (2009), Moran (2013), Schwienhorst (1998) and Souza (2004). The present research seeks to report, using the comparative approach method, the results obtained through the experience made in groups, making a qualitative study on the use of new digital technologies for learning English through the Duolingo and Hello English applications. The main objective was to analyze two applications among the different tools that the digital technologies have for teaching-learning of the English Language: Duolingo and Hello English, where through their functionalities which of them had a greater acceptance on the part of the students. The results were raised from the realization of an experiment in a class of Elementary School II in a municipal school, divided in four groups, in the city of São José dos Ramos, whose students are adolescents, where two groups have used the application Duolingo and the other two Hello English and then there was the exchange of applications. In addition, there were seminars seeking to know a little about each application, thus making possible the learning process. The new digital technologies, through both applications, showed the possibility of using new dynamic and playful tools that we can bring to the classroom, making students more interested in English language classes.