Análise da mídia digital duolingo com foco na produção oral da língua inglesa

Abstract

Technological advances demand from educators a new looking at their pedagogical practices, the new didactic forms and social inclusion aiming to achieve a new knowledge reality. The teaching of foreign languages has started to guarantee a high level of concern from the official documents (Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, Currículos do Estado de São Paulo e Lei das Diretrizes e Bases). This research, using a qualitative methodology, focused on English oral production, aims to analyze pedagogical activities of English language through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Looking for Duolingo’s limits and potentialities on English oral production activities. The Duolingo analysis, had as parameter the needs of the students of the ETEC, verifying that it partly attends their needs. This research was based on PCN (2000) and on criteria to evaluate sites and didactic materials as Ramos (2009). This research, therefore, is an inviting research for data analysis of digital media focused on the oral production of the English language