Contribuições pedagógicas da rede social youtube para o ensino e a aprendizagem de língua estrangeira

Abstract

The present work explored possible pedagogical contributions of YouTube in the education for the teaching/learning of foreign languages. The objective was to problematize, explore and understand the possibilities and challenges that YouTube brings to processesof teaching/learning of foreign languages in basic education, as well as the skills that teachers and students need to develop to use YouTube in these processes, thinking in a proposal consistent with contemporary teaching practices and methods, including the audience participation culture of a YouTube channel for foreign language teaching.The methodology, with a qualitative character and theoretical basis, was based on netnography (virtual ethnography) and documentary research to reach the proposed objectives. A survey was applied to generate data to evaluate the use of YouTube among teachers and English students to learn that language. The results of this analysis showed that the use of contemporary teaching approaches using social networks such as YouTube, for example, allows the engagement of informal education, as well as the development of more advanced communication and interpretation skills, favoring the development of student autonomy.