Uma ferramenta colaborativa móvel para apoiar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem da Língua Portuguesa para alunos surdos

Abstract

The present work purposes for a collaborative mobile tool to support the teaching and learning process of the Portuguese language for the deaf students. Through interviews with professionals of Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and research based on the literature, it was possible to have the dimension of computational scientific contribution in relation to the education of the deaf. Today, those who directly participate in the education of deaf student process faces many challenges. We can highlight, for example, the pedagogical methodology focused exclusively for a fully deaf person uses visual approach. Computer technology come being a good alternative at the contribution to the people education. Interconnecting the educational context and computational technologies, arises numerous alternatives that make the teaching-learning process more efficient. Good examples found in the literature point to the use of collaborative systems as a good alternative to the teaching-learning process, especially with the use of mobile technology. The proposal presents a study about the Libras and the Portuguese as a second language, to contextualize a little about the origin of the Libras and the present methodologies for the Portuguese teaching to the deaf. In the technological context, it was conducted a survey of the theoretical referential about collaborative systems, concepts and definitions of important terms in the area. A systematic review of the literature was conducted in order to investigate the current state of the art when it involves mobile collaborative learning with teaching of Portuguese for the deaf. The collected material guided the progress of the project, directing for the application of collaborative learning techniques in Portuguese language activities, with a mobile collaborative tool to support the implementation of these activities. This paper presents in detail, the development of the application in all its evolution and finally it was conducted a case study to validate the issues of the research proposals in a real context with deaf students. The results of this study are presented and discussed, showing the analyses based on the issues raised and the information collected during the intervention.