ENGLISH ONLINE 3D ON MOODLE: A PROPOSAL OF DIGITAL TEACHING MATERIAL TO TEACH ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE IN A BLENDED MODALITY

Abstract

Previous studies have discussed the use and development of digital teaching material to English as an additional language in the field of Applied Linguistics. On the other hand, there is yet a need to describe or to establish guidelines to the development of digital material, since mainly the frameworks proposed in our field rarely describe the procedures that involve this process. The article aims at describing a model to support the digital teaching material development, based on a sociocultural view of language teaching, as well as to integrate and to implement the genre pedagogy and the multiliteracies approach into the design. To illustrate this model, it presents the English Online 3D - an online course for teaching basic English, elaborated to be used in a blended modality. The results exemplify the eight steps implemented into the design of the digital teaching material that are (1)Analysis, (2) Plan, (3)Design of interface, (5) Test the prototype, (6) (Re)design, (7) Apply, and (8) Evaluate.

Keywords
Digital teaching material; Design; Online English Course; Moodle