“Teacher, I need to show you a foreigner I have been talking to on my cellphone!” Unveling students’ understanding about technology use for enhancing the speaking skill in English language

Authors

  • Marlon Machado Oliveira Rio Universidade do Vale do rio dos Sinos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-3640.2018.2.31946

Keywords:

English language teaching, speaking skill, digital technology, English language learning.

Abstract

The oral skill has been lately studied by researchers in the English Language Teaching field (ELT), once it is considered one of the hardest ones to be improved (Bygate, 2009). Some solutions have been suggested within the ELT literature as to assist students on this skill’s improvement (Lucas, 2001). Additionally, technology has taken its valuable position in society today, circumscribing the scholastic and working environments. Entangling both topics (the speaking skill and digital technology), this article displays an initial1 research carried out with English learners worldwide, in which pupils could voice their opinions concerning the use of digital technologies in their English learning path alongside the impact of them in fostering pupils’ oral skill. Preliminary results show both negative and positive views regarding the use of technology and the oral skill’s improvement.

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Author Biography

Marlon Machado Oliveira Rio, Universidade do Vale do rio dos Sinos

He is currently a PhD Applied Linguistics student at Universidade do Vale do rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), holds an MA in Linguistics by the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), is a specialist in Education and Contemporary studies by the Instituto Federal Sul-riograndense (IFSUL-RS), majored as a laureated student in Letters (English language teaching) at PUCRS. He is also currently a specialization student in the College and distance learning teaching methodologies course by Faculdade de Educação da Lapa (FAEL) and in the fith term of the Letters
(Spanish and Portuguese languages teaching) course by the same Institution (FAEL). He is a book, articles and bookchapters author whose focus are primarily on the teaching and learning of English. He takes part in the post-graduation research group named "The collaborative actions and the pedagogical tasks in the teaching and learning of foreign languages", being currently carried out at
UNISINOS, carrying out his research in the teaching and learning of foreign languages. He has had the experience in an international exchange program in China (TOP CHINA - Santander) at the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, where he has taught English to advanced level Chinese students. He is an official translator at the Coursera online platform, working on the translation of online courses from renowned universities with a worldwide far reaching and excellent quality. He is an editor and a reviewer of the following academic journals: Aviation in Focus by PUCRS, Revista Bem Legal by the Federal University in Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and the Brazilian Journal of Biology by the Federal Rural University in Pernambuco. He has had a long-term experience in the scientific iniciation, focusing in the areas of bilingualism and neuropsycholinguistics, moving afterwards to the teaching and learning of English as well as to the techonology use within the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in both online and in-presence contexts field. He was an English language teacher in the PRONATEC courses, offered by the Federal Brazilian Government in 2013, having had also the experience of teaching English for 2 years in a State school in Charqueadas, as well as the opportunity to teach English at the language school CNA Idiomas for 4 years. He has also had the opportunity to coordinate the pedagogical sector of the Washington Academy language school and teach English in Charqueadas. Today he is an English teacher at the Batista private school in Porto Alegre and is a private business English teacher to managers, coordinators and board director of the international GKN Driveline company in the Charqueadas branch.

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Rio, M. M. O. (2019). “Teacher, I need to show you a foreigner I have been talking to on my cellphone!” Unveling students’ understanding about technology use for enhancing the speaking skill in English language. BELT - Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 9(2), 433–457. https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-3640.2018.2.31946

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