A utilização do blog como apoio pedagógico no ensino de língua inglesa: um estudo de caso

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Karine Guerra dos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25267
• topic: ensino e aprendizagem de língua inglesa; blog; interação; teaching and learning of english language; blog; interaction; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This research concerns to a case study performed with thirty students studying English language in a language school in the city of São Paulo. It was elaborated a 2-month project planning in order to use a significant pedagogic support tool in which the student would have the opportunity of working with something from his daily life, in addition to face to face class. Thus, the teacher/researcher has created a blog to investigate if this virtual environment would contribute for the development and construction of knowledge through interaction with and collaboration between student/student and student/teacher. Furthermore, this study aims identifying if the affective ties would collaborate to a significant learning of English Language. For analyzing the comments and posts from the blog, this research was based on Socio-interactionism and on the Communicative Approach. After two months of project performance, the investigation showed the blog was very efficient as a virtual learning community by propitiating the interaction and to the project attendants in target-language.