Análisis del desarollo de contenidos digitales para la cualificación del profesorado de portugués de lengua no materna

Resumo

Focusing on the teachers of Portuguese as a Non-Native Language (PNNL), a scientific area that congregates multiple specificities, namely at the didactic level, this study intends to investigate, on one hand, if during the training (initial and continuous) teachers are provided with elaboration of didactic material skills that better match the learners’ needs and teaching contexts, and, if they are trained to use technology in a pedagogical perspective. On the other hand, the aim was to understand why technology is used and not used in PNNL teaching, and if, ultimately, when it is used, different teaching approaches are adopted, such as Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT). For this purpose, a mixed research was carried out which involved both quantitative and qualitative methods, in order to find out if there is any relationship in the teaching of PNNL-PNNL contemplates Portuguese as a Second Language (PSL), Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) and Portuguese as a Heritage Language (PHL) -, among the use of technology and the adoption of different language methods and teaching strategies, as well as in the elaboration of holistic tasks. The sample of this study consisted of a total of 101 PNNL teachers in the quantitative study; and 20 teachers in the qualitative study, from the sample of the quantitative study with teaching experience in endo and exolingual context. The results revealed that these teachers do not use technology to engage learners in more active learning and holistic tasks, as proposed by TBLT, nor to implement different teaching approaches or even strategies. For all these reasons, it could be concluded that there has been no prior preparation, either in initial or continuous training, to use technology in a pedagogical perspective in order to respond to the paraphernalia of specificities that PNNL teaching brings together, therefore neglecting, in the teaching performance, the use of different teaching approaches such as TBLT.