The use of digital tools in english language teaching for deaf students: what do Teachers say about it?

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Matheus Lucas de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Moraes , Antonio Henrique Coutelo de, Pedrosa, Juliene Lopes Ribeiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fórum Linguístico
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/forum/article/view/81106

In 2020, the demands and needs of deaf education intensified with the health crisis of COVID-19, which, unfortunately, continues to this day. Thus, the objective of this article is to analyze the conceptions of teachers who had experience teaching the English language to the deaf during the COVID-19 pandemic about their experiences with the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) with these students. To this end, we sought to base our discussions on Borges and Lima (2018), Kupske (2018), Moraes and Barros (2020), Almeida (2021), among others. The study has a qualitative approach (TRIVIÑOS, 2010) and we use content analysis (BARDIN, 2011) on the data. The data demonstrate that DICT can facilitate the linguistic access of deaf students in English classes. However, some specificities must be respected, and training must be offered to professionals who work with these individuals.