Trabalhando língua estrangeira através da rede social facebook

Abstract

This article was developed in English language lessons with a group of students from public schools in the state schools, students of the 1st year of high school (group of 28 students). The research was conducted with the constant observation of the teacher in the school computer lab and classroom. The task was well received by the students who mostly performed all the steps without complaining about the use of foreign language or exposure of their intellectual production in a social network. The activities ranged from: exploiting characteristics of a song, the Hollywood actor profile, interpreting movie trailer. The objective of this research was to analyze the reaction of the students in the use of a social network widely used until then for them only as entertainment to be used for educational purposes. The degree of student involvement in the activity, the posted comments and their satisfaction in the accomplishment and the result of the work released via internet was also observed. Thus, one can see that facebook can be used as a virtual learning environment enabling interaction through the use of various media while leading to greater goal is learning.