A formação do professor de inglês a distância: Os recursos educacionais abertos

Abstract

The globalization has caused gradual process of language unification in a diversity of cultures. This capitalist phenomenon is a reflection of the technology evolution, as internet from which the interpersonal relations has turned to be mainly in English, the hegemonic language of contemporary society. Despite English communicative competence has been spoken in the increasingly intense circle of cultures and people relations; it is still seems to be a problematic aspect in the university mainly in Brazil. The role of the English teacher finds ways that lead their formation to pedagogical practice when it allows to him/her makes the knowledge accessible to others through their language skills and understandings. The extent of this research is English Language teaching via web, characterized as one of the means that interconnects subject to several cultures, habits and languages. It focuses specifically on issues related to Open Educational Resources (OER) used in the didactic-methodological process of teacher training courses in Portuguese/ English degree in distance learning. The second language learning in distance mode imerse in the cyberculture world can be conducive to build this knowledge when it incorporates the socio-interactional relationships in this process by means of a multicultural and complex context. This investigation is a case study from the qualitative approach using the techniques of documental analysis, exploratory observation, and online reflexive interviews to collect and analyse data. This study is based on the theoretical principles from Paulo Freire s popular education as Pedagogia da Autonomia (1996) and Pedagogia como prática de Liberdade (1982) as well as Stephen Krashen s applied linguistic hypothesis (1995; 1988) and the philosopher and sociologist Pierre Lévy (1993; 2010). Besides them, there are contributions of others authors from applied linguistics field as Vilson Leffa (1996; 2002; 2006), Dell Hymes (1972) and, Victoria Margarita Gomez (2004; 2010) whose focus is on pedagogical virtuality. It was concluded that the OER are able to make possible to reach out the fluency in the interactivity dynamic among individuals, related to a new way to build knowledge via web. They are also able to contribute to communicative competence acquisition in Portuguese/English graduation by Distant Education. However, they need to find methodological, institutionals and educational politics conditions, which benefit their potencialities, as well as find attitutes of thecnological accessibility and, at the same time, consider the popularization of this knowledge in a critical qualified way by means of virtuality in order to put into practice Paulo Freire s Popular Education.