O uso de material hipertextual em um curso de leitura on-line : foco na perspectiva do usuario / The use of hipertextual material in an on-line reading course : focus in the user s perspective

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This study investigates the experience of 44 students with a hypertextual material of the English reading course Read in Web, within the context of a self-tutoring learning approach. Since the course was projected for users with an intermediate level in English, the study analyses the way a student´s level of language proficiency affects his interaction with the course hypertextual material. The analysis took also into consideration the students? initial expectations for the course, and the factors they considered to be positive and negative in the Read in Web. In the theoretical section, the investigation presents the pedagogic aspects of independent learning process and self-tutoring language studies in the web. Then, it delineates a pedagogic proposal for teaching English for Specific Purposes in such a context, and it emphasizes the contributions and limitations of the technological resources for teaching such ability. The empirical research took into consideration the data obtained trough pre- and pos-course questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The data analysis lead to the following conclusions: (1) According to the level of text comprehension in English, the users may present differences in their choices of activities offered in the virtual lessons; (2) there is a significant reduction after the sixth activity of a lesson, which suggests the need to establish a limit for the number of activities to be incorporated in a virtual lesson. This research suggests that the concentration and effort required for the online student is significantly higher in a self-tutoring study in the digital context than in a regular class-room. The trends delineated in this research offer information for future studies related to self-tutoring learning in the digital context

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independent study reading hypertext systems foreign language sistemas de hipertexto leitura estudo independente ensino teaching lingua estrangeira

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