Blended English Teaching: proposta de ensino-aprendizagem de inglês para fins específicos

Abstract

Conventionally, English for Specific Purpose teachers instruct students to use reading techniques applied to the texts comprehension, so they can gradually develop the reading skill in another language. According to education tendencies that encourage the technological resources insertion in the teaching-learning process, using new forms of classroom organization, as well as the mediation of contents, we propose in this research a teachinglearning proposal to English for Specific Purposes, called Blended English Teaching, which combines blended teaching, virtual resources for self-study and a compiled corpus with authentic texts, referring to manuals and tutorials by hardwares and softwares. This proposal purpose is to enhance English language reading skill proficiency, specifically for the word decoding and the integration of ideas in texts. To evaluate this proposal, we carried out a case study, with students from the Medium Level Technical Course in Computing, at Education, Science and Technology Federal Institute in Amazon - IFAM, based on the performance achieved by them and according to the established description in an evaluation line. The evaluation artifacts used were three diagnoses (initial, intermediate and final evaluation) and learning activities, developed during eleven classes. The results indicate that BET proposal contributed more significantly to performance in reading skill proficiency, in the word decoding standard, not being equally effective in the integration of ideas standard. This research has as products a specific corpus with texts compiled from the Computing area and a guide for teachers of English for Specific Purposes, with guidelines for this teaching-learning proposal use