Aprendizagem sem distância: tecnologia digital móvel no ensino de língua inglesa

Abstract

This work aims at promoting a discussion about the use of digital mobile technology as a component to support the teaching-learning process of English language, especially within extracurricular environments. We may say that the use of this kind of technology as an education tool suits the current scenario, in which there has been much investment in mobile devices, leading us to deal more and more with students from the Digital Generation, who use these apparatuses constantly. In other words, mobile devices have made even more part of our social interactions and due to their large demand, not only has it increased substantially the number of payable apps, but also the availability of the ones downloaded for free so as to favor the language learning. Thus, we will present some relevant aspects about the use of digital mobile technology in the teaching of English taking, primarily, into account their pedagogical purpose. It is expected that the examples proposed might guide future ideas of adopting educational projects which have to do with the use of technological components of this nature in foreign/additional language lessons.

Keywords

• Digital mobile technology
• Teaching-learning of foreign language
• English language