Introdução ao letramento informacional digital no estágio supervisionado da Licenciatura em Letras

Abstract

The increasing need of following the evolution of the available Technologies, the process of digital inclusion, the students profile make, consequently, teachers to be in sustained thinking about their practice and in continuing qualification not only technological, but also methodological. Based in studies about the New Literacies and, particularly, about Digital and Informational Literacy, the research general objective was analyze the process of Digital Informational Literacy development of pre-service teachers, from the Letters Course of a Superior Education Institution in the south of Brazil, observing the process of search for online resources to the planning of activities for language teaching. The specific objectives were I) to plan, implement and evaluate the activities for the development of DIL in the superior education, applied to the research of digital tools for the elaboration of lessons for the language teaching in the basic education; II) to analyze how pre-service teachers search for and get use of information from and in the digital environment when producing activities for the teaching of languages; III) to create an E-book with the activities proposed in class for the DIL development. In the theoretical reference of this research we discussed: I) the comprehension of the new digital literacies; II) the development of digital informational literacy in the Letters Course observing the literacy of the initial education professionals, as well as the importance of a reflexive approach of the subject with the pre-service teachers; and III) the implications of this education for the future of language teaching, involving the education of teachers and their teaching practices. This research is characterized as a research-action, once the researcher performed and could make insertions with the other participants involved. With an interpretativist methodological approach which provided the analysis of the classroom as social place and allowed the participants to think about the process of the DIL development. Yet, we explored the research context, detailing the Institution – the Centro Universitário Franciscano, the Letters Course of this institution, and the profile of the four participants, enrolled in the subject of Estágio II; the steps of data generation about the process of information search in digital environment of students; the analysis of the data obtained, based in the Analyzes Steps and the Information Search Model created by Ellis (1989), which represented the performance of students about their DIL level; the elaboration, implementation and analysis of a pedagogical product, that is an eBook composed by the activities proposed and developed involving the students of the Letters Course. This study intended to act in the initial education of teachers, motivating and including them in the thinking about new literacies, and this way, giving a collaboration so that these professionals be more prepared for their future services, beyond helping in the information search and access in their daily contexts. The results show the development of DIL and the performance of the participants, from the analysis of the proposals created for the research and the activities elaborated by them. However, it is important to consider that it is necessary to enlarge the process of DIL development for other subjects that compose the Letters Course.