Tecnologia digital e aprendizado da língua portuguesa entre imigrantes e refugiados no Brasil

Abstract

The present study and its exploratory qualitative nature, aims to present a profile of immigrants and refugees related to the digital technological tools used by them in learning/practising the Brazilian Portuguese language. Considering language as the basis for communication and social integration, the study highlights as theoretical and epistemological references: the migratory and host language issues in Milesi and Andrade (2015), Barbosa and São Bernardo (2017), language and learning in Stern (1983), Cassany (1999), Oliveira (2010), Silva (2012), and Paterson (2012), literacy in Kleiman (2005), digital technologies in Kenski (2012), Prensky (2010), Selwyn (2017) and, based on the data collected through a research questionnaire applied to eleven migrant communities on Facebook, we highlight as a result that most of them have a high level of education in their countries of origin, but have difficulties in learning grammar and linguistic variations of Portuguese language, mainly because they indicate that learning / practice occurs in the family, work and on the internet (Duolingo, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram) environments, what demonstrate the lack of formal courses in the host language.