A formação continuada de professores de inglês por meio de tecnologias e a mudança na prática docente

Abstract

The present research called The Continuing Education of English Teachers through Technologies and Change in Teaching Practice had, as purposes, to investigate the process of continuing education of English teachers through special programs, accomplished through Technologies of Information, offered to teachers in São Paulo State, such as: Interaction Teachers, Interaction Students, A Rede aprende com a Rede, and to analyze the relevance of such courses in the educator s continued formation, in the change of their educational practice and the contribution of such courses in the improvement of English teaching-learning in the state public school, in the elementary and high school. The research was developed under the optics of the qualitative research and it involved the study of thirty five English teachers of the state public school in São Paulo State, belonging to Diretoria de Ensino de Ourinhos, that took part of courses of e-learning modality. To collect data, questionnaires and documental analysis of reports, plans of class and documents from Secretaria da Educação (SEE) were used. The analyses of the data of qualitative and interpretative stamp had as a reference the Analysis of Content, whereas, through this type of analysis, it is possible to accomplish a desirable level of understanding of the perceptions, beliefs and personal relationships of the participants of the research, being considered the context of the courses of continuing education. The analyzed data demonstrated the importance of the continuing education for the change of the teaching practice of English language teaching.