Gêneros textuais acadêmicos e ensino da língua inglesa: um caminho para a motivação e a autonomia

No ambiente universitário, quando instados a produzir gêneros acadêmicos, os alunos freqüentemente apresentam dificuldades em relação ao conteúdo e à própria organização textual desses gêneros. Dessa forma, as práticas de leitura e escrita a que são expostos são geralmente desmotivadoras e inibidoras da autonomia, pois têm origem em um ambiente inseguro de dúvida, tensão e dificuldade. Partindo desses pressupostos, desenvolvi uma pesquisa-ação com uma turma do sexto semestre do curso de Letras-Inglês da UFPA visando verificar em que medida a aplicação de uma proposta pedagógica composta das fases de apropriação, produção e publicação dos gêneros acadêmicos pode levar à motivação e à autonomia desses graduandos. Esta pesquisa está fundamentada na teoria da motivação (DÖRNYEI, 2001a,b; USHIODA, 1996), da autonomia (BENSON, 2001; SCHARLE & SZABÓ, 2000) e dos gêneros textuais na perspectiva sócio-retórica (SWALES, 1990; BAZERMAN, 2006). Os resultados apresentados procuram oferecer possibilidades de um ensino mais sistemático que prepare o graduando de Letras para uma produção textual mais motivadora e fomentadora da autonomia. Além disso, tendo vivenciado uma experiência produtiva de aplicação de gêneros, espera-se que esses professores em formação lidem com gêneros textuais de forma mais efetiva em suas futuras salas de aula.

O processo de (re) construção da prática pedagógica de professores de língua inglesa em formação inicial

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

Avaliação da proficiência oral em inglês como língua estrangeira: foco na competência lexical e uma proposta para o processo de validação do descritor vocabulário de um teste de proficiência para professores de língua inglesa

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

A formação inicial do professor de língua inglesa: teoria e prática em questão

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Traçando um perfil de usuários de dicionários- estudantes de letras com habilitação em língua inglesa: um novo olhar sobre dicionários para aprendizes e a formação de um usuário autônomo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Educandas do PEJA em: conversas sobre a língua inglesa e sua influência no cotidiano

Este trabalho foi desenvolvido a partir de eventos de letramento em língua inglesa a educandos de EJA do projeto de extensão PEJA, UNESP – Rio Claro. Os sujeitos participantes foram mulheres, na faixa etária entre 40 a 70 anos, que não tiveram oportunidade de estudo anteriormente e agora buscam concluir o Ensino Fundamental. Pensamos buscar nas falas dessas educandas, por meio de eventos de letramento, suas reflexões sobre a presença do inglês em nossa sociedade e como lidam com essa língua estrangeira (LE) cotidianamente. Entendemos letramento como uma forma de prática social de leitura e escrita, resultante do processo de ensino/aprendizado de um grupo social ou individual. Os eventos de letramento vêm proporcionar aos indivíduos participantes da pesquisa um aculturamento, um contato inicial e gradual com uma LE. Pretendeu-se otimizar esse contato com a língua inglesa expondo esses indivíduos a situações cotidianas em que o uso dessa LE estivesse presente. Levamos para a sala de aula elementos normalmente encontrados no cotidiano, material que consistiu em fotos de materiais publicitários encontrados nas ruas centrais da cidade e que continham essa LE, na tentativa de fomentar um diálogo e discussão de idéias. Objetivou-se motivar esses alunos de EJA a observarem o quanto a língua Inglesa está presente em nosso dia a dia, estimulando o desenvolvimento de uma leitura crítica e reflexiva. Ao final do trabalho percebemos que a maioria das educandas reconhece a constante presença da LE em questão e que, ainda que não tenham tido ensino formal nessa LE, estabelecem algum tipo de relação com tal LE em diversas esferas de suas vidas. E, muitas vezes, entendem o significado de uma palavra estrangeira devido à preferência dos falantes em utilizá-la em detrimento à língua materna, o que indica um processo de naturalização do inglês no mundo lexical dos brasileiros.

Ensino de língua inglesa: estilos discursivos e estruturas de participação na construção de uma prática renovada

Este trabalho apresenta os estilos discursivos e as estruturas de participação presentes na construção da interação de sala de aula por professor de inglês envolvido em processo de renovação pedagógica.

A oralidade na sala de aula de língua inglesa de alunos ingressantes no curso de Letras: contribuições para a formação do professor

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Educandas do PEJA em conversas sobre a língua inglesa e sua influência no cotidiano

This paper was developed through literacy events (Barton, 2000) about English language, understood as a social practice of writing and reading. The subjects involved in this research were women, between forty and seventy years old, students of a Young and Adult Education Project (PEJA) that occurs at UNESP/Rio Claro, whose are looking forward to conclude basic school. We intended to see in their speeches reflections about the English language presence in our society and how they deal with this foreign language. Thus, we optimize this contact exposing those women to daily situations where English language was present. To foment dialog and ideas discussions, we brought to the classes common elements, materials such as street advertisements photos with words in English. We noticed that most students recognize the constant English presence and, even they never had formal English education, they were able to establish relations between the uses of English words in everyday Portuguese at most different spheres of life. And, at many times, foreign word comprehension is related to English words use instead of a native one leading to an English naturalization process in the Brazilians speeches world.

Aprendizagem da língua inglesa a partir de imagens cinematográficas

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Artefatos ou instrumentos no Métier do professor de língua inglesa da rede pública: recursos tecnológicos e o agir docente nos textos de instrução ao sósia

Pós-graduação em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa - FCLAR

Cartões de saudações em língua inglesa: uma prática de letramento em análise

This research aims at studying the use of greeting cards, here understood as a literacy practice widely used in American society of the United States. In American culture, these cards become sources of information and memory about people‟s cycles of life, their experiences and their bonds of sociability enabled by means of the senses that the image and the word comprise. The main purpose of this work is to describe how this literacy practice occurs in American society. Theoretically, this research is based on studies of literacy (BARTON, HAMILTON, 1998; BAYHAM, 1995; HAMILTON, 2000; STREET, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1993, 2003), the contributions of social semiotics, associated with systemic-functional grammar (HALLIDAY; HASAN 1978, 1985, HALLIDAY, 1994, HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004), and the grammar of visual design (KRESS; LEITE-GARCIA, VAN LEEUWEN, 1997, 2004, 2006; KRESS; MATTHIESSEN, 2004). Methodologically, it is a study that falls within the qualitative paradigm of interpretative character, which adopts ethnographic tools in data generation. From this perspective, it makes use of “looking and asking” techniques (ERICKSON, 1986, p. 119), complemented by the technique of "registering", proposed by Paz (2008). The corpus comprises 104 printed cards, provided by users of this cultural artifact, from which we selected 24, and 11 e-cards, extracted from the internet, as well as verbalizations obtained by applying a questionnaire prepared with open questions asked in order to gather information about the perceptions and actions of these cards users with respect to this literacy practice. Data analysis reveals cultural, economic and social aspects of this practice and the belief that literacy practice of using printed greeting cards, despite the existence of virtual alternatives, is still very fruitful in American society. The study also allows users to comprehend that the cardholders position themselves and construct identities that are expressed in verbal and visual interaction in order to achieve the desired effect. As a result, it is understood that greeting cards are not unintentional, but loaded with ideology and power relations, among other aspects that are constitutive of them.

Crenças e experiências de professores no PIBID de Língua Inglesa : interação e ressignificação?

There are diverse studies about beliefs in Applied Linguistics since 1970 or so (BARCELOS, 2004), especially beliefs about teaching and learning Foreign Languages. The research about beliefs and experiences of English language teachers, who take part in a program of teaching incentive (Pibid), and, therefore, are immersed in public schools for elementary education, is relevant, once the (ac)knowledgment of these beliefs related to their teaching and learning experiences allows these teachers to reflect about the aspects that involve their teaching practice and their role as teachers of English language. The present work aims to investigate the interaction of beliefs and experiences related to foreign language teaching and learning of teachers who are participants of Pibid, in the subproject of English Language at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), in 2013. The objective is to identify the beliefs and experiences about teaching and learning that the pre-service teachers (PI), the coordinator teacher (PF) and the supervisor teachers (PS) of the program show and how their beliefs and experiences influence each other and can or cannot be redefined. This is a qualitative and interpretative master’s research, in which I analized one narrative of each PI, one interview of PF and another of each PS, and, also, two meetings – the first between the PF and the PIs, and the second between all the participants in the subproject. All the data was collected at the end of their participation in Pibid, approximately one year and six months later. Therefore, I raised some beliefs and experiences about English language teaching and learning present in the teachers’ discourse and analized excerpts in their speech that evidenced the interaction with other participants and its influence to the formation, confirmation, demystification and redefinition of their beliefs. The results of this analysis bring elements that may help the constant reflection of university teachers, teachers in practice and pre-service teachers about the aspects that involve the teaching experiences in public schools.

O conceito de motivação em dizeres de professores de língua inglesa

This work aimed at analyzing the speeches constructed about motivation by English teachers who teach at public state schools in the interior of Minas Gerais. We aimed at delineating the concept of subject underlying the subjects’ notion of motivation and identifying the role that the English teacher attributes to himself and to the student when he/she enunciates on motivational issues, problematizing the possible consequences of these issues for some English teachers while working in public schools. In order to do so, our investigation made use of theoretical assumptions from Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. The theoretical fundamentation deriving from Bakhtin Circle as well as from Michel Pecheux’s theoretical basis were also very relevant for this research. The intersection of these studying fields entails a theoretical construction that considers the voices of those who live the social practice (MOITA LOPES, 2006), which allows one to see the subjects through their heterogeneity, fluidity and fragmentation. Moreover, it generates knowledge about language in its political, ideological, social and historical aspects. AREDA (SERRANI, 1998) was used as a theoretical and methodological framework for data collection. In our analysis, we considered the voices and the conditions of production that constitute 5 English teachers and, from some selected speeches extracted from their discursive production, some notions as intra and interdiscourse, discursive resonance, discursive memory, among others, can be seen interwoven. We hypothesize that the production of meaning deriving from these English teachers comes from a cleavage between the interdiscursivity about motivation and their position in relation to the English language. Some of these teachers’ discursive inscriptions were delineated as they follow: i) the silenced motivation, in which the teachers come up with several voices, repeating what that has already been said about motivation through silence by excess; also, through an inscription in a process of anomy, the English teachers silence motivation, as they come up with other sayings, in an anomic order, denying their identification with their mother tongue and culture because of a desire to learn the foreign language and culture; ii) the motivation in/from/ by others that resounds, in the way the teachers speak, a relation of alterity on what, in/from desire of other relations (colleagues, students, teaching materials, media, etc.), other forms and alternatives are established as a guarantee of students’ motivation; the teachers are also inscripted in in-service practice training as a space of educational development, because they imagine that the experience of the in-service practice alone, which excludes the educational instruction from the Languages course in which they graduated/were graduating at, taught them how to motivate the students; iii) the motivation as a will of power/knowledge, which means there seems to be teachers’ inscription in the relationship between power and knowledge (Foucault, 1996), disconsidering the conflicts that constitute the English classroom to say that there is a control of the English teaching and learning process and, as a result, they also sustain that they hold control over how to motivate; furthermore, the presence of a resonant voice, whose effect is given by an inscription on the (illusion of) completeness can be seen, because the English teachers believe that while motivating their students, this motivation will provide them with all the missing elements, which would mean that when they motivate students, they would be able to fulfill all the gaps in their learning process.