Produção de vídeos em língua espanhola: o whatsapp como meio de interação

Abstract

The present work arises from the need for alternatives to work with foreign language in school, specifically the Spanish Language. The low workload of the discipline makes the work, often exhausting and monotonous, since the lack of contact between the students and the teacher tends to cause disinterest or even a certain devaluation. Therefore, knowing the shortage of classroom time, with only 1 hour / lesson a week, we propose to try to solve the following question: is it possible to work in a significant way the production of videos in the classes of Spanish Language? With this, we intend to report a project of Spanish language teaching that involves the use of the WhatsApp application and the production of videos in the foreign language. The work with the videos followed a sequence of searches, discussions, division of groups and adaptations of scripts and speeches. The videos produced were based on Chavo del Ocho, a Mexican series. In the classes, the students searched for episodes, selected some scenes, adapted some characters and / or lines, translated parts of the adaptations and recorded the videos. WhatsApp entered this proposal as a means of extraclass interaction. Through it, students were able to keep in touch with each other and with the teacher, making discussions more frequent and thus more productive. As a result, the increase in the students' interest index for the discipline was perceptible. Participation in classes became more productive, even with students who expressed little in the classroom and began to impose themselves more, participating more effectively in the proposals.