Awakening to languages with digital narrative in preschool education

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Maria João
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Martins, Filomena
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v10i2.11327

In a society marked by globalization and linguistic and cultural diversity, it is important to stimulate, as soon as possible, the children’s awareness to language and its diversity. Several studies reported the positive contribution of the awakening to language approaches for children’s awareness to diversity and respect towards the Other. On the other hand, in an era in which technologies are part of children’s daily life as simplifiers of the learning process, the digital narratives in interactive whiteboard can also be a contribute to this process, providing greater interaction and involvement during activities. The purpose of this study is to understand how we can awake pre-school children to linguistic diversity, using the interactive whiteboard starting from storytelling. This study is part of a qualitative research with action research characteristics, since we wanted to analyze the meaning of the educational phenomena observed at different moments. Several tools were used to collect data, such as direct observation, transcription of video-recordings, field notes and children’s drafts.The results of this project, obtained through content analysis of children’s interactions, demonstrate that the early contact with other languages allowed for the development of children’s linguistic awareness, based on the identification and comparison of different languages. In addition, the integration of the interactive whiteboard in this project with a digital short story allowed verifying a higher commitment of children in the realization of the proposals, enhancing the development of technological and literacy competences.