This article aims to describe and analyze websites that help in the learning of
listening comprehension of English as an additional language. Thus, the tools known as
information and communication technologies - ICT help in the learning process both
autonomously and as a possible resource in the classroom. For the analysis and discussion, we
investigated two websites - British Council and Lyrics Training-. The websites were collected
based on the criteria by Ana Amélia Amorin Carvalho (2006) about the elements that
characterize a website as educational. As well, the research uses the methodology of
descriptive study when investigating each website and elements belonging to them, and has a
theoretical foundation in the studies of Ana Amélia Amorin Carvalho (2006), Artur André
Martinez Campos (2008) and Ana Paula Domingos Baladeli (2013). The results of the
analysis point out that the websites Lyrics Training and British Council have the
characteristics addressed by Carvalho (2006), with British Council having all the elements,
while Lyrics Training has a good part of these characteristics, however, this does not become
an obstacle to student learning in the additional language.
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