Ensino de língua inglesa e pensamento computacional nos anos finais do ensino fundamental em contexto de computação plugada e desplugada

Abstract

The use of digital technologies and access to the Internet has become increasingly common in most people's daily lives. In the school context, this has also been consolidating, although unequally. In this sense, we notice the so-called - digital divide‖ in school contexts in our country. Thus, the present research aimed to understand the context of English language teachers and to elaborate a digital workbook with English language activities that help the development of computational thinking in English classes. This workbook was produced based on the discussions of its theoretical contributions, as well as on the validation of the teachers who participated in the research. The study is justified by the existence of the digital divide in different school contexts and for making available English language activities that work with computational thinking for both contexts: with access to digital technologies and the Internet and for contexts in which there is little or no access to them. The theoretical basis is threefold: the digital divide (PRIOSTE; RAIÇA, 2017; VAN DIJK, 2020 WING, 2006), the BNCC of English language (BRASIL, 2018) and computational thinking (LIUKAS, 2015). The methodology is process and product (ROÇAS et al., 2020) and the data were treated in a quali-quanti perspective, as understood by Brown (2004). The data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, as it surveyed numerical data as well as subjective responses based on the validation of the developed educational product, having surveys with probing and validation questionnaires with the participating teachers. The research used the teachers' answers in order to understand their school contexts, as well as to reformulate the first version of the product according to the feedback from the reading of the educational product. And, by means of this research, the educational product - Digital Works: Digital Workbook for English Language Teaching and Development of Computational Thinking‖ was created. It is a digital workbook, composed of grammar and vocabulary exercises for the final years of elementary school, in order to develop computational thinking, relating them to the BNCC guidelines. It was found that the research becomes relevant in the area of languages and computational thinking skills, by having tied the relevant product to the educators of this subject and the research participants. Thus, this research aimed to contribute to the development of computational thinking skills in plugged and unplugged contexts.