Yesterday, today and tomorrow: about the web and the emerging collaborative tools for foreign language teachers

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Alan Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Fialho, Vanessa Ribas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/35589
• topic: Retrospectiva; E/LE; Web 2.0; Colaboração; Recursos Educacionais Abertos; Retrospective; S/FL; Web 2.0; Collaboration; Open Educational Resources

Considering that “[...] it is only possible to foresee the future when looking to the past” (LEFFA, 2012, p. 404), it is necessary to investigate the past and the present of the web, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the educational technologies for the teaching and learning of Foreign Languages (FL) to speculate about the future, regardless its uncertainties. Therefore, the aim of this work is to present and discuss the changes in ICT and educational tools, from the past to the present, to point emerging perspectives to the FL teacher’s reach. The results – which come from observations about some digital tools and resources available in the Repositório Acción E/LE (Espanhol como Língua Estrangeira; S/FL: Spanish as a Foreign Language) – indicate that: (1) online resources and ICT in general do not usually deny the past, but yet include it in the new, making such resources to be in continuous evolution; (2) this evolution, consequently, happens in a gradual and complex way: not all the ICT and educational technologies change at the same time and same extent; (3) possibly, the most visible and emerging tendency is the mass collaboration implied to tools and its uses, which explains the emerging of the Open Educational Resources (OER), for instance.