The present debate on the productive restructuring and its impact on education has been discussing the role played by the technological-scientific development on the current changes. Among the technological resources the new languages articulated to the New Technologies and to the Means of Communication of Mass are outstanding. The present work analyzes - with the concern for distinguishing what really constitutes a backstage reality into the capitalist structure, and what is old under new appearance ways - the relationship between work, education and language into this picture of changes. Thus, it discusses, with emphasis on the emergency for the collective work, the implications of the processes of work division and the development of the machinery for the formation of the individual worker. Two possible lócus of ambiguity with reference to the language are analyzed within these articulated processes, in their most contemporaneous configuration, which allow formulations of ideological content, characterized by the fetish making of the new technologies.
languages and technology; communicative competences; languages and education