Jogos digitais no ensino e aprendizagem de inglês para crianças

• Autor(a) principal: LEVAY, Paula Basto
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRPE
• Texto Completo: http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/6714
• topic: Jogo didático; Ensino de inglês; Ensino-aprendizagem; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The main purpose of this research was to present a way of contributing to the inclusion of digital games in the process of learning and teaching of English to children. As a strategy, a qualitative field research was done in an EFL school in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. The theorical support of this research was based on children‟s development theories and English learning approaches. Another theorical support was the „digital natives‟ conception. These new learners ask for new positions from the school and teachers, what support the implementation of new teaching practices and the use of digital games. The research was conducted in three phases preceded by a preliminary phase in which they were made a selection and theorical analysis of digital games. In the first phase, we evaluated the games contributions through the use by students. In the second phase, interviews and questionnaires with teachers were conducted aiming to identify the use of digital games by these teachers and the teachers‟ technological needs in the context of using games. Finally, the third phase was the construction of a product as a way to contribute to the implementation of digital games. The data collected were qualitatively interpreted against the theorical support of this research and the results of the theorical analysis showed that a lot of games in English available in the Internet do not contribute to the learning of the language. Nonetheless, the results also showed that some digital games could contribute to the learning of English when used by students. Some of the contributions were: possibility of revisiting vocabulary, interest and engagement in participating, internalization of words and autonomous activity. In the survey carried out with the teachers, it was identified that digital games are not being frequently used for the teaching and learning of English, mainly because these teachers could not find the games easily on the Internet, nor did they know many search engines to easily find these games. Thus, the need of a faster and more objective search engine was identified and therefore, the opportunity to improve and innovate the existing systems. So, the characteristics of a system considering the needs of the prospective users (teachers) were analyzed and that resulted in a prototypical system to be used by teachers as a way to motivate the integration of digital games in teaching practices.