Silva, B. A. M. (2017). Utilização de recursos tecnológicos na consolidação do código ortográfico (Doctoral dissertation, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal). Retrieved from http://repositorio.ipvc.pt/bitstream/20.500.11960/1992/1/Barbara_Silva.pdf
Abstract:
“This study integrates the Master’s degree in Preschool Education and Teaching of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education. The presented work includes the description of what was developed during the Supervised Teaching Practice, as well as the research that took place in the same period. The research focused on the curricular area of the Portuguese language due to the difficulties detected in a 3rd and 4th grade class. Its main objective was to understand how technological resources can be used for orthography consolidation. In order to guide the study, two research questions were defined: 1) What difficulties do students have at the level of orthographic competence?; 2) What technological resources are suitable for performing orthographic tasks? For the development of this research, it was taken as a reference the theoretical framework Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and in the accordance with the problem and the questions of the study, was privileged a qualitative methodology and the data were collected through participant observation, audiovisual records, textual productions of students and questionnaires. For the analysis of data, we defined categories of orthographic errors and indicators that allowed us to determine the student’s involvement in the tasks. The data analysis allowed to verify that the greatest difficulties are related to the irregularities of the orthographic code and that the adequacy of technological resources for the performance of orthographic tasks implies a previous exercise of reflection and planning by the teacher, articulating technological, didactic and pedagogical knowledge. This work suggests intervention proposals sustained in the digital educational resources, that contribute to the learning through the thought, understanding, memorization and reflection.”