Um framework para a construção de um objeto de aprendizagem digital para o ensino bilíngue de pessoas surdas

Abstract

Despite the current proposal of bilingual education, the initiatives have not been enough to promote a full acquisition of the Portuguese language for the deaf. Studies show that reading and writing practices are insufficient, leading to a low level of knowledge about the Portuguese language (second language for deaf people in Brazil), so that the abilities of several students are limited to knowing how to code and decode the symbols graphics, without relating meaning to the text read. This fact is aggravated even more if we observe data from the 1990s, present in several works, where until then the great majority of the deaf people (about 90 %) are children of hearing parents. In general, deaf children under these conditions usually do not have adequate contact with bilingual education, especially in the family environment, which reduces the chance of cultural immersion. Therefore, this study seeks to alleviate the problem caused by the lack of bilingual contact in the daily life of the deaf person, providing contact through a learning object composed of a Serious Game and a set ofWeb services, focused on formative evaluation. As the research problemis: "How to promote frequent contact with Portuguese-Portuguese bilingualism, in well defined contexts, using a digital learning object (DLO), so as to have a positive impact on the development of the second language (L2) of deaf students? " In this way, this work allows that, through a study in the field of software engineering, game developers could have access there is a conceptual framework for the production of an DLO aimed at teaching L2 to deaf students, composed of for a Serious Game and a set of Web services, focused on formative evaluation, focusing on the generation of a product that adds value in order to respond to the needs of the elements involved in the process of teaching the Portuguese language. Thus, to make this work viable, a pilot experiment was carried out to highlight the problems of deaf education and to identify characteristics for teaching L2. Subsequently, the project stages were carried out, which allowed the production of tools to promote the bilingual practice of the deaf student to acquire the Portuguese language as a second language and favor the follow-up by the educator on the progress of the student deaf. In order to evaluate these instruments, a qualitative analysis was carried out. The data collection was done by questionnaires in a semistructured approach, for two profiles of evaluators: the first, computer specialists to evaluate aspects of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); the second, specialists in the education of deaf people to evaluate the teaching-learning elements applied to the DLO. Finally, the results obtained indicate a positive impact for the use of DLO in bilingual education.