Metodologia ativa: o uso do aplicativo Duolingo como método de ensino e aprendizagem de idiomas

Abstract

This article reports on the use of active methodology and the tool for studying languages Duolingo in the current context about the pandemic and Covid-19 and its effects on education. The active methodology seeks, through technological means, to bring the teaching of English to elementary school students who have as compulsory the subject and who are away from school due to COVID-19. It also brings the hybrid teaching, the flipped classroom, and gamification as proposals for learning development, giving the circumstances for the quality of the suggestion made about the elaborated article. Thus, I used as methodological procedures for the objectives to be achieved, the exploratory, quantitative and bibliographic methods. For this, research projects were analyzed, such as Course Completion Papers (TCC) and scientific articles, to collect information. Based on this research, it was found that these methodologies currently employed because of the pandemic, are innovative methods, which proved to be an effective process in the use of active methodology and that makes, beyond the physical distance, come to unite teacher and student in favor of a single factor: education.