A gramática e a abordagem comunicativa para o ensinoaprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras: uma reflexão crítica

Abstract

This article, especially designed for foreign language teachers and undergraduate students of Arts (languages), aims at developing a critical consideration of the pedagogical practices adopted for the teaching of grammar through the Communicative Approach in particular. The issues treated in this work were organized into two sections. In the first one, a brief historic-theoretical-practical discussion was developed for the purposes of issue contextualization, taking into consideration the traditional and communicative methods with special focus on the Communicative Approach. In the second section, a brief overview of the approaches that rule the current teaching practices of languages is provided. The ideas presented and discussed here are grounded on the works of Widdowson (1991), Silveira (1999), Lamb Fenner & Corbari (2006), Almeida (2011), Santos & Almeida Filho (2012), among others.