Letramento móvel no ensino de línguas estrangeiras: o estado da arte

Abstract

This project focuses on Mobile Literacy (WEST; VOSLOO, 2013) and its objective is to comprehensively explore relevant literature on Mobile Literacy on regular teaching and foreign language teaching both in Brazil and in the world. It justifies itself through Mobile Literacies’ contemporarity and then, through the current scarcity of literature written on the issue in Portuguese encompassing the current Brazilian context. Such scarcity limits the ability to use mobile technology as a teaching tool and therefore creates the need for research with Gil’s (2008) exploratory methodology in projects such as this one to give way for more specific research with tangible results. To do só, the scientific-historical section, Klemens (2010) will be used and as for the educational section, we studied the acronym MALL (Mobile-Assisted Language Learning) (BURSTON, 1994-2012; CHINNERY, 2006). This research is mostly bibliographic, including two interviews applied when they were necessary. This research uses Burston and Chinnery’s (2006) definition of Mobile Literacy, counting on Digital Literacy as support, with Digital Literacy in turn being defined by Lankshear and Knobel (2006), Lanham (1996), and Buckingham (2010). When the mapping was over, we came to several conclusions. First, literature written in English has a strong tendency to use the term Mobile Learning, while literature in Portuguese has a similar preference for the term tecnologia na educação, even when the research was on mobile devices. We also noticed that projects in Portuguese tend to have more varied theoretical references, while literature in English has the tendency to use similar authors within their respective theoretical references. That being said, a very small amount of researchers were identified as authors of more than one paper analyzed here. Furthermore, we also observed a disconnection between theoretical references in Portuguese papers on general education when compared to papers in English.