Mediação tecnológica e uso da língua inglesa em dois contextos universitários brasileiros

Abstract

The aim of this research was to verify in the technological mediation greater opportunities for contact with the English language between two groups of university students from different socioeconomic realities. With the support of theories of second language acquisition that emphasize their ecological dimension, and that interact with the theory of distributed cognition and sociolinguistics, we sought to understand how technological mediation builds on Brazilian university population, patterns of use of the English language not associated with the requirements of the schooling process. Through the application of an electronic questionnaire, data were collected from a survey that sought information on the participants' perceptions about literacy in English mediated by technological artifacts. Some key findings are: the study found statistical evidence for concordance of English is essential to understand programs / serials / movies spoken in that language, communicate with foreigners online and to participate in social networks, between the two scenarios studied. Furthermore, the statistical test of association revealed no association between the studied groups between variables "having oral comprehension of the English language and listen to radio online", "having oral comprehension and play online", although weak, "having oral comprehension and watch video ", analyzes the relationship between 'reading comprehension and access e-mail", as well as between the variables "written production and play online" for all institutions. The study suggests that the use of some cognitive technologies may be an option for language contact with English.