Sobre letramentos, ensino de inglês e uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação : um estado da arte

Abstract

This study aimed to constitute a state of the art about the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the English language learning as a foreign language, analyzing the main themes of works, taking into account the teachers knowledge (or his/her formation), the pedagogical strategies used and the advances in digital literacy of those processes. This is a bibliographic and documental character study identified as a state of the art, which corpus institution was made forward Post-graduation Programs in the areas of Education, Arts, Psychology, and Communication in its majority from Brazilian universities, being selected a total number of 46 works between articles, dissertations, and thesis to compound the sample. The time frame for the bibliographic raising was 2010 to 2015, justly because it is a period in which it is observed and massive expansion of the ICT in the language learning. The first chapter is about technology and education, making emphasis on literacy, digital literacy and the methods of teaching- learning languages with the use of technologies. The authors that support this study are: Leffa (1998), Levy (1999), Soares (1998), Buzato (2006), Xavier (2007), Coscarelli (2011), Bortoloni (2009), Mill (2013), and others. The second chapter is about the methodological processes used in this work, based in authors such as Goldenberg (2004), Denzin and Lincoln (2006), Romanowski and Ens (2006), Porto (2008) and Palacio et alli (2014). The third chapter is about the results of the phases made to the organization of the themes, and finally in the fourth chapter was made the analyses of the themes in an integral way. The results of the different themes analyzed point out the use of the ICT in the teaching and learning process and the development of the communicative approach to the language learning, emphasizing the relevance of the digital professor training and the renovation of his/ her pedagogical strategies that take into account the students’ interest.