A reconstrução de uma unidade didática para o ensino de inglês e as percepções de alunos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

As part of the research project entitled Evaluation and Design of Didactic Materials for Teaching and Learning Languages in Different Settings and Contexts, the aim of this study is to investigate which contributions the re-elaboration of a didactic unit designed by the teacher/researcher can bring to the learning process of a group of students. The re-elaboration of this material was based on the results of a previous study (Nogueira, 2005) as well as on theories of teaching and learning, language views and theories of layout of printed texts. This work was also grounded on the experience of the teacher/researcher in the school where both studies were conducted. This case study also examined the perceptions of ten students in a public school on the implementation of the new version of the didactic unit. Data were collected through questionnaires, reflective journals, interviews and audio recordings of the classes in which the didactic material was used. This study is based on some principles of reflective teacher education, proposed by Smyth (1992) and Schön (1992, 2000), on the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais - Língua Estrangeira (Brazilian National Curriculum Parameters for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Elementary School - Brasil, 1998a) and Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais - Ensino Médio (Brazilian National Curriculum Parameters for the Teaching of Foreign Languages Secondary School - Brasil, 1999). It is also grounded on the socio-interactionist theory of teaching and learning, proposed by Vygotsky (1933/1978, 1933/1987), the concepts of task (Prabhu, 1987, Ellis, 2003) and genre (Swales, 1990; Bhatia, 1993, Ramos 2004), Ramos 1998s criteria to evaluate and design didactic materials, and frameworks for layout and typography of printed texts (Smith, 1985 Araújo, 1986; Hurlburt, 1986; Ribeiro, 1987; Camara, 2005; Lupton, 2006) . The results of this study showed that the new version of the didactic unit created moments of cooperation among participants in the classroom, especially between students and the teacher. This study also showed that learners made use of reading strategies to read and interpret instructions in English written in the material. In addition, the data showed that they used their background knowledge, previous textual and systemic knowledge, as well as the mediation of the teacher and help from their classmates to overcome their difficulties to do the activities proposed in the material. It was also confirmed that the visual aspect of a teaching material can contribute to learning. Finally, not only did this research help me to reflect upon my role as a teacher, designer and researcher but it also provided me with the opportunity to reflect upon my students practice

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lingua inglesa -- estudo e ensino teaching materials avaliação e produção de material didático english language teaching linguistica aplicada ensino-aprendizagem de língua evaluation and design of didactic materials material didatico

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