O papel das propostas de atividades on-line nas disciplinas semipresenciais de línguas da UFC Virtual

Abstract

The Federal University of Ceará, through the UFC Virtual Institute and in partnership with the Open University of Brazil (UAB), offers, among other semi-distance courses, the Letters/English and the Letters/Portuguese courses, consisting of online activity proposals. As we understand that the online activities may be responsible for organizing principles and pedagogies with a focus on web technology implementation (Salmon, 2002), our aim in this paper is to analyze the role of the online activity proposals in semi-distance language courses at Virtual UFC, considering the web interactivity potential updated in this context. Our theoretical and methodological approach consisted of the accomplishment of an exploratory, descriptive and predominantly qualitative research, grounded in Shetzer and Warschauer (2000), Salmon (2002), among other authors’ conceptions. The investigation resulted in the categorization of 4 types of online activities practiced in English Language 2A: oral comprehension and production and Reading and writing academic texts courses. In making this categorization, we can observe the practices and skills that are potentially mediated by these online activities, and it reflects their role in this context.