O aplicativo duolingue como ferramenta de ensino-aprendizagem de língua estrangeira e sua influencia na formação de futuros professores de lingua inglesa

Abstract

In today's high-tech world and with universities as the most critical and participative peopleeducators, we have to include within that context applications that can augment and help these future teachers, as well as use the most interactive and fast-learning environment possible, with This thought arose or questioned whether these undergraduate students of the English Language / Literature course use any application, especially Duolingo, to support the course and plan to use it with their new students. This paper consists of six sections, structured as follows: introduction, lists 2 and 3, which are examined or teaching the English language, in a brief history, in addition to training these teachers for a long time and a brief presentation of the application. Duolingo as a learning tool and its application in the classroom. In the fourth, we will approach the methodological procedures adopted to search for the necessary information for this research. On Thursday, we will discuss and analyze the data received, presented in graphs and finally make the final considerations. We have as a general objective the investigation and use of the Duolingo app by EAD / UFPB English language teachers in the formation of João Pessoa, discussing the use of the Duolingo app by these students in formation, as well as to problematize the teaching and learning of the English Language. from the training offered to the students of the course. To this end, we chose to apply a questionnaire that has as collaborators students of the Distance Education Letters / English course of the Federal University of Paraíba, so we can identify which perceptions of language teaching underlie the profile of students of the course, as well as as to see if participants used the Duolingo app to improve the English language. As main theoretical support was used: MORAN, José Manuel. In her Work “New technologies and pedagogical mediations” and Freitas, Maria Teresa. “Digital literacy and teacher education”. With the investigation we can see that students use some application for improvement and support in the course, we can also visualize in this same data and identify that the duolingo application is the most used among future teachers. Thus we open the curiosity for further research and with a broader field within the courses taught at the university EAD - Polo João Pessoa.