Experiências virtuais de ensino de inglês e formação docente em um contexto universitário.

Abstract

The current technological scenario comprises intense and accelerated information-sharing among people who are not in the same physical space or, often, at the same timeframe. In this contemporary social context, English teaching and learning, and language teacher education cannot be separated from the changes in educational paradigms that have been (re)constructed in the virtual world. In this paper, we aim to reflect, as in the role of collaborating professors at the São Paulo State University, working at the Language and Teacher Development Centers (CLDP) and the Unesp Foreign Language Program (PLEU), on our experiences of online English teaching, and initial and continuing language teacher education. Based on the construction of meanings about our experiences, from 2024 to the first third of 2025, and on analyzing metric data of our performance during this period, we problematize the actions we developed within the scope of university extension and internationalization. We recognize that the scope of our work is enhanced by the mediation of technologies, as well as being directly related to the demands for methodological-technological improvement for language teachers in contemporary times.