LANGUAGE TEACHING: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES IN TIMES OF TECHNOLOGIES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate the accomplishment of activities in Portuguese and English classes
with the use of different textual genres and the support of technology tools with students in a Public High School.
Such activities made it possible for students to learn languages in order to develop many skills, valuing the
students’ linguistic and cultural diversity who live with these technologies on a daily basis. This work is justified
by understanding that teachers need to integrate digital media in their practice, since it enable an improvement
in the quality of teaching and allow the acquisition of knowledge in a more dynamic way, giving students the
opportunity to develop multiple skills. Thus, information about the difficulties of language teaching was used,
according to Antunes (2003) and Bagno (2004), the skills and reflective practices of teachers in the 21st century
in Perrenoud (2002), the technological scenario and the teachers’ role in Demo and Filé (2008), the importance
of using textual genres and literacies in Rojo (2019), as well as the skills present at BNCC (2017). The activities carried out demonstrated, it is possible to relate the teaching of grammatical rules considered traditional, associated with the development of students' literacies from the analysis, reflection and interaction in the proposed activities with the use of technological tools. This article shows the relevance in preparing activities that promote reflection for both personal development and the construction of collective intelligence in the students. It is extremely important that the language teachers integrates technological diversities in the classes since these enable an improvement in the quality of teaching and allows students’ knowledge acquisition in a more dynamic way, so students connect the knowledge through the use of technological tools.