Tendências de pesquisa em ensino-aprendizagem de inglês como língua estrangeira no Brasil: 2005-2009

The aim of this paper is to point the main research tendencies in teaching and learning English as a foreign language in the main postgraduate courses in this area, in Brazil, in the period 2005-2010. The adopted methodology for the data collection included the inventory of theses and dissertations, which are included in the sites of the universities with research lines in Applied Linguistics and were produced in the mentioned period. The most productive categories were the ones related to teacher formation, translation, language and technology and studies about teachers and students’ beliefs.

Variantes motivacionais de professores de língua Inglesa em um curso de formação inicial

This paper aims at discussing the relevance of student-teachers’ motivational variants in an English as a Foreign Language Teacher Education course whose syllabus proposes, since the beginning of the program, the development of students’ proficiency in the target language aligned to EFL teacher education theories. In addition, this study also intends to comprehend how this course structure has been developed, verifying how prospective teachers react towards its proposal. Results indicated relevant aspects related to motivation, since from all participants, many declared their interest in following the teaching career while others revealed interest in developing their English language skills, which indicates that both needs and expectations of these groups seemed to be attained, favoring their motivation to language learning and teaching.

O desestranhamento em relação ao alemão na aprendizagem do idioma: um processo de aproximação ao outro sob a perspectiva da competência intercultural

This article aims to approach, under a critical perspective, images about German language and their speakers, presented by Brazilian university students interested in or engaged in learning this language in the first stage of studies. The purpose is to deal with evidences of the occurrence of stereotypical images and to discuss their implications in/for the teaching-learning process, aiming with this study to show the importance of considering and establishing as a relevant goal in the teaching of German, the necessity of a destrangement route or period, through a methodological approach aimed at helping the students in the process of developing intercultural competence. Such discussions are founded in theoretical conceptions related to the notions of other and self, intercultural competence, intercultural approach, as well as in results obtained through an investigation conducted within the field of foreign language (German) learning.

Epêntese vocálica em encontros consonantais por falantes brasileiros de inglês como língua estrangeira

Pós-graduação em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa - FCLAR

Teletandem: possibilidades, dificuldades e abrangência de um projeto de comunicação online de PLE

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Teletandem and performativity

Teletandem is a virtual autonomous VoIP2 technology-based context (webcam images, voice and text). Within this context, two students help each other learn their native (or other) language through intercultural and linguistic collaboration. Performative Theory can shed light on the constitution of these students' national identities, as they engage in linguistic performances of marking and discussing differences between their countries during teletandem. Based on critical approaches to discourse and intercultural communication, my analysis shows that this online intercultural contact opens innovative possibilities for foreign language teachers to promote intercultural contact with the different. However, without teacher mediation, teletandem interactions may fall into shallow performances of sedimented and pre-given representations of self and other. Subsequently, this article concludes with a discussion of relevant pedagogical points for foreign language teachers.

Avaliação de produções escritas em português para falantes de outras línguas em contexto teletandem: contribuições para a formação inicial de professores

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Análise da estrutura genérica das instruções na fala do professor de inglês: contribuições para o teste oral do Epple

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Contradições no uso de tecnologias em contexto de estágio de um curso de Letras: o professor de inglês em formação inicial no ensino superior

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Conflitos no diálogo eu-outro em contexto de Tandem português e espanhol

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A influência da ortografia na percepção e produção do inglês como língua estrangeira

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A emergência do conceito da interculturalidade no ensino e aprendizagem de língua estrangeira

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Aspectos culturais como fios condutores de interações em Tandem na aprendizagem de português língua estrangeira: interculturalidade, estereótipos e identidade(s)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Concepções e práticas do ensino de leitura em inglês no ensino médio

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR