The Influence of Technology in Didactic and Pedagogical Choices of Pre-Service Teachers of English Language

Abstract

The goal of this work is to present the differences among the didactic-pedagogical behaviors from the English language pre-teachers when they had to create tasks using as artifact the technology. The need to use the technology as a resource to the foreign language teaching and learning processes is one of the reasons to investigate the appropriated way to use it in the educational field. Warschauer and Healy (1998) and Nardi (1996) postulated that the computers and internet in the foreign language teaching and learning processes are giving better ways of working as well as a better formation to the ones involved in the field of education. So, research about the insertion of the computer and internet as a didactic material resource having Activity Theory as the main theory (Engestrom, 1987) leads as to understand the changes in the activity system through the different artifacts. As the context of research we have the language course of a federal university, the data was collected by observation of methodology classes. The data analysis showed us that on trying to create pedagogical tasks using different teaching artifacts the pre-teachers developed different praxis.