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Teaching of French, interculturality, Amapá, educational technology, border.
This research presents preliminary results of the application Amazônia FLE, developed for the teaching-learning of French as a foreign language (FLE, in Portuguese) in the Amapá State, Brazil, border area with French Guiana (France). The tool aims to support the learning of elementary school II students in Amapá public schools, aligning it with the competencies and skills provided for in the French-language Amapá Curriculum Proposal (PCA, in Portuguese) (SEED, 2022). The application, which is part of the A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, will integrate pedagogical content adapted to the intercultural reality of this border area, strengthening savoir-faire and savoir-être knowledge. The creation of the Amazônia FLE arises from the absence of French textbooks provided by the National Textbook Program (PNLD, in Portuguese), which hinders the autonomy in learning of students. The research adopts a qualitative methodology, structured in three stages.The first consists of a bibliographical analysis and numerical materials, aiming at the theoretical basis. In the second, characters (avatars) are created to represent adolescents from Amapá and French Guiana involved in intercultural situations (CANDAU, 2014). These avatars introduce eight thematic units with contents linked to the two regions, addressing school skills, oral and written activities, as well as animated quizzes organized in didactic sequences. In the third stage, questionnaires will be applied to students from public schools of Oiapoque (border) and Macapá (capital), to investigate the lack of teaching resources (DA SILVA, 2024), as well as implement and verify the effectiveness of the tool prototype. The interaction provided by the tool aims at immersion in the French language and approximation between both cultures, promoting a meaningful and contextualized teaching-learning.