Sing and learn: analysis of the reception of a virtual language teaching tool

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Mariana Backes
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Lazzari, Melissa Giovana, Barcellos, Patrícia da Silva Campelo Costa, Moraes, Michele Moraes de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Texto livre
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/textolivre/article/view/24389
• topic: Sing and learn; CALL; Estratégias de aprendizagem; Sing and learn; CALL; Learning strategies

Digital information and communication technologies are present in our daily lives at all times, and they also have an influence on foreign language teaching-learning processes by providing authentic material and real audience to learners. The virtual tool Sing and Learn is a lyric-based English language study website, which not only provides listening comprehension exercises, but also offers vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing practice to instigate students to use different learning strategies (MORAES, 2017). The present work then seeks to analyze from the concept of learning strategies (OXFORD, 1990; 2003) a lesson performed in Sing and Learn, as well as the reception of the mentioned tool by university students. Thus, the research data was obtained through a virtual questionnaire applied to students of an Instrumental English discipline after completing the lesson. As a method of data analysis, a classification was built, based on Saldaña (2012), using codes for the answers given by students to the open questions proposed in the questionnaire. The results of the study show an acceptance of the tool by the learners, verifying that it has a lot to contribute to the teaching-learning of English language.