RESUMO:A fim de contribuirmos para um debate significativo sobre o ensino de língua inglesa para crianças, temos como objetivo levantar questões a respeito desse ensino por meio da discussão do papel da língua inglesa na construção identitária de crianças e de proposições relativas à inclusão digital, à formação de professores ao uso de gêneros textuais e de atividade. Para fundamentar nossa proposta, apresentamos alguns conceitos relevantes: linguagem e identidade; o status da língua inglesa na sociedade brasileira contemporânea e as implicações para o ensino; a formação docente, gêneros de texto e gêneros de atividade. No trabalho, priorizamos a formação de professores de inglês para crianças. Palavras-chave: ensino; formação de professores; língua inglesa para crianças; construção identitária; gêneros de texto e de atividade.ABSTRACT: This paper aims at contributing to a significant debate about English language teaching for children. Our objective is to raise issues regarding the teaching of English in childhood by discussing the role of English in the construction of children's identities as well as statements related to digital inclusion, teacher education and the use of text and activity genres. To ground our proposal, we present some relevant concepts in order to situate our assumptions: language and identity; teacher education and text and activity genres.
This paper analyses conceptualizations of digital technology use that are aligned with sociocultural pedagogies of language learning, proposing a framework for developing sociocultural language pedagogies through digital technology use and presenting the language education workshops offered for high school students as embodying the principles of such a perspective. The paper is grounded on a sociocultural perspective of learning. Data gathering occurred in the New Talents Program, which is the background of the instructional material developed for the immersion week “Digital technologies and English language learning”. We conclude by discussing some opportunities and challenges for sociocultural pedagogies of language learning through digital literacies.
This chapter aims to demonstrate how a group of educators from a southern Brazilian state university designed and implemented formative workshops to sustain English language teachers' professional development through digital and media literacies. The chapter maps important changes that have happened in language teacher education in Brazil and the convergences these changes share with digital and media literacies coming from a sociocultural paradigm. It also presents and discusses the extent to which the instructional material the group of educators produced for the continuing education of English language teachers integrated 21st century skills and the standards from the TESOL technology framework. As a way to evaluate the instructional material, the chapter analyzes the representations and identities schoolteachers constructed when engaging with digital and media literacies through the instructional material. The chapter concludes by advocating more social, political and collaborative future research in language teacher education and digital and media literacies.
This chapter aims to demonstrate how a group of educators from a southern Brazilian state university designed and implemented formative workshops to sustain English language teachers' professional development through digital and media literacies. The chapter maps important changes that have happened in language teacher education in Brazil and the convergences these changes share with digital and media literacies coming from a sociocultural paradigm. It also presents and discusses the extent to which the instructional material the group of educators produced for the continuing education of English language teachers integrated 21st century skills and the standards from the TESOL technology framework. As a way to evaluate the instructional material, the chapter analyzes the representations and identities schoolteachers constructed when engaging with digital and media literacies through the instructional material. The chapter concludes by advocating more social, political and collaborative future research in language teacher education and digital and media literacies.
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