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[eltonmartins-love]

Federal University of Ceará

Undergraduation degree in English

Course: Technological trends in English teaching and learning

Professor: Gabrielle Tomaz de Souza, M.A.

Student: Francisco Elton Martins de Souza

Digital Report

             In this experiment, the task was to write an e-mail to me, with just the word “Hello”, using a smartphone.        

           My participants were my neighbors: a woman at the age of 72, a retired History teacher who has graduated at UFC and worked in primary and secondary schools all her life; and a man at the age of 25, who does not have an academic degree and who works in a technological enterprise, selling software programs to other enterprises.

             The woman did not even have a smartphone. Her phone was a simple one, just to her make and receive calls. She said she did not have the minimum idea of how to use a smartphone and, because of that, she did not have one. So I borrowed mine to her. She did not have an e-mail, so she used mine to try to accomplish the task. As she did not know how to do the task, I have taught her. She took 10min and 54 seconds to do the task, and she only did it because I did not stop telling her the steps, since she simply did not know how to use the smartphone. She had many difficulties in touching the screen and making the commands work, especially while typing the letters. She said the keyboard was very small and she could not see the keys properly, even wearing glasses.

           On the other hand, the man had no difficulties at all to do the task. He simply took his smartphone and did the task in 09 seconds.

           In conclusion, it was clear to me the difference between someone who is a digital native, or almost, and someone to whom the technology is something practically unknown.  Age takes a great role in being familiar with technology or not.

[eltonmartins-love]

If I Were a Boy 

Beyoncé 

If I ______ a boy, 

Even just for a day,

 I_______ outta of bed in the morning 

And throw on what I wanted, then go 

Drink beer with the guys And chase after girls

 I_______ it with who I wanted 

And I__ never _____ confronted for it

'Cause they______ up for me. I

f I _____ a boy,

 I think I_______ ___________ 

How it feels to love a girl 

I swear I_____ a better man

 I________ to her 

'Cause I know how it hurts 

When you lose the one you wanted 

'Cause he's taken you for granted 

And everything you had got destroyed 

If I______ a boy,

I _____ ________ off my phone 

Tell everyone it's broken 

So they’d think that I was sleeping alone

I_______ myself first 

And make the rules as I go 

'Cause I know that she’d faithful 

Waiting for me to come home 

To come home 

If I______a boy, 

I think I _____ ________________ 

How it feels to love a girl 

I swear I______ a better man 

I_________ to her 

'Cause I know how it hurts 

When you lose the one you wanted 

'Cause he's taken you for granted 

And everything you had got destroyed 

It's a little too late for you to come back 

Say it's just a mistake 

Think I'd forgive you like that? 

If you ______ 

I ____ _______ for you, 

You _________it wrong… 

But you're just a boy You don't understand (Yeah, you don't understand, oh) How it feels to love a girl someday You’ll wish you were a better man You don't listen to her You don't care how it hurts Until you lose the one you wanted 'Cause you've taken her for granted And everything you have got destroyed But you're just a boy... 

Tradução para o português brasileiro: 

(by Elton Martins) 

Se eu fosse um garoto, 

Mesmo que só por um dia, 

Eu pularia da cama de manhã 

E vestiria a primeira roupa que visse, e sairia 

Tomaria cerveja com os caras 

E paqueraria as garotas 

Eu iria para a cama com quem eu quisesse

E nunca seria confrontado por isso 

Porque ficariam do meu lado. 

Se eu fosse um garoto, 

Eu acho que poderia entender 

Como é amar uma garota

 Eu prometo que seria um homem melhor 

Eu a escutaria

Porque eu saberia o quanto dói 

Quando você perde alguém que você queria 

Porque ele não te valorizou 

E tudo o que você tinha foi destruído.

Se eu fosse um garoto, 

Eu desligaria meu telefone 

Diria para todo mundo que está quebrado 

Para pensarem que eu estava dormindo sozinho Eu me colocaria em primeiro lugar E faria minhas próprias regras Porque eu saberia que ela seria fiel E estaria me esperando voltar para casa Para casa Se eu fosse um garoto,

Eu acho que poderia entender 

Como é amar uma garota 

Eu prometo que seria um homem melhor 

Eu a escutaria 

Porque eu saberia o quanto dói 

Quando você perde alguém que você queria 

Porque ele não te valorizou 

E tudo o que você tinha foi destruído.

É um pouco tarde para você voltar Dizer que é só um erro Pensa que eu te perdoaria assim? Se você pensou que eu esperaria por você, Pensou errado... Mas você é só um garoto Você não entende (É, você não entende, oh) Como é amar uma garota algum dia. Você desejará ser um homem melhor Você não a escuta Você não se importa com o quanto dói Até perder aquela que você queria Porque você não a valorizou E tudo que você tem ser destruído Mas você é só um garoto...

[eltonmartins-love]

Federal University of Ceará

Undergraduation degree in English

Course: Technological trends in English teaching and learning

Professor: Gabrielle Tomaz de Souza, M.A.

Student: Francisco Elton Martins de Souza

Digital autobiography

           Concerning how I have learned English, I consider that I have really learned the language in regular English courses, even though I have been studying English since my 5th grade. I have always studied in public schools, in the municipality of Quixadá, and I have never had an English teacher who had a degree in English. Until today, it is difficult to find graduated English teachers in public or even in private schools.

           When I entered my first undergraduation, which was Portuguese, at State University of Ceará, in Quixadá, I started my first English course, at Núcleo de Línguas, which lasted six semesters. At this time, the year was 2009, there were not many technological devices to learn English, or at least I did not have access to them.

           I had a physical dictionary – Oxford Escolar para Aprendizes Brasileiros de Inglês –, and this dictionary had a CD-rom, whose program I could install in my laptop. So I learned a lot of pronunciation and phonological transcription with this program, because there were the British and the American pronunciation available for the user to hear. Also, there were the CDs from the textbooks – the collection was English File – 2nd edition – and I used to hear them in my laptop. This helped me a lot to understand and absorb the sounds of the English language.

           When I came to Fortaleza, in 2013, I continued my English studies at Casa de Cultura Britânica – intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced courses – for more six semesters. This time, I continued to use electronic dictionaries and to hear English CDs, but also I have started to watch YouTube videos in English. I used to watch them with no subtitles and this helped me to consolidate my fluency.

           I also took many courses at Inglês sem Fronteiras Program. There was the electronic website and I learned a lot in there. There were videos, audios, proficiency exams samples and we could record our voices and practice our pronunciation.

More recently, I have subscribed to many streaming services and I am completely in love by them, because I watch movies and TV shows in English with English subtitles and every time I see a word that I do not know, I pause the video and search that word in my online dictionary – Cambridge Dictionary.

           All these technological resources have been influencing how I teach English today because I always indicate my online dictionaries to my students, I share the audios of our textbook with them and I usually indicate TV shows or movies or YouTube channels to them.

           I believe that teaching English effectively using technology depends a lot on what devices the school you teach in has available. I would love to teach using a digital board or using at least some slides, but this is not possible in my reality. I think the teacher needs to show the students that they can really improve their English using technology because this is a way to have more contact with English. For example, watching videos, TV shows, movies in English is a very clear way to maintain contact with the language and, consequently, to improve English listening and speaking abilities, as well as speaking with people from English speaking countries. Internet has become the world much more interconnected and it has become easier and easier to interact with people around the globe.