Gêneros digitais e TICs: os cursos de formação em Letras têm preparado os futuros professores para trabalhar com estas ferramentas de ensino?

Abstract

In the current social context we notice the profusion of the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and, consequently, of the digital genres, causing changes in social and discursive practices. From this, this research aims to verify if the undergraduate and graduate people in Linguistics course have knowledge about the digital genres and if they feel prepared to work with the ICTs in the classroom, that is, if teachers training courses have prepared these (future) professionals to form citizens able to interact in society. Most of the participants affirmed to have knowledge about the genres, however, much of it claims that the skill was acquired outside the academic training environment, which leads to insecurity if these professionals actually make/use these new technologies in the classroom, as educators, exploring, in fact, their pedagogical potential or in an intuitive and superficial use.