O ensino do inglês mediado pelas tecnologias digitais: táticas para a descolonização da língua inglesa

Abstract

The research presents the results of a study about the experiences with English language of young people from a public school at Niterói city, mediated by digital technologies, through the investigation of the tactics and wiles experienced in their daily life using cyberculture to learn this language. The study was developed with high school students from a state school, located in the North Zone of Niterói, where individual and group conversations were established with the subjects of this research, besides the proposition of workshops using the mobile devices. This study had a historical-cultural approach and used Mikhail Bakhtin´s concepts of alterity, dialogism and exotopia. Authors such as Solange Jobim e Souza, Mailsa Carla Pinto Passos & Rita Ribes Pereira and Marília Amorim inspired the choice of the theoretical-methodological procedures of the research; Boaventura de Souza Santos and Michel de Certeau founded the justification of the research with the concepts of south epistemologies and making arts , respectively; Manuel Castells, André Lemos, Edméa Santos, among others, helped to understand the historical and social context about cyberspace and cyberculture. The results point to the learning of English from the relations of meanings produced by subjects with music, electronic games, television series, applications and Social Networks in times of cyberculture. It should be emphasized that this research points out ways that the youngster has been working and that, if conceived by the school, can contribute to the development and excellence of the teaching and learning processes in classrooms