As expectativas dos alunos e as concepções dos professores da 8a. Série do Ensino Fundamental sobre o ensino e aprendizagem da língua inglesa

Abstract

The motivation for this research was the fact that the students didn’t learn English in the classroom at a public school in 2002. The main question for this research was: Why haven’t the students learned English at the end of the Junior High School? So, the aims of this research were: show the student’s expectations towards the English Teaching and Learning Process and analyzing the speech of their teachers about the English Learning Acquisition Process and the English Teaching Process and also their practice in the classroom. The ones who got involved in this research were students and teachers respectively from the 8th grade of a public and private Junior High Schools in Campo Grande-MS. The used methodological tool for this research was the Analyses of the Speech. Some of the found results were: the results from the interviews with the students showed that they don’t know why they learn English and they don’t have explanations for the meaning of this foreign language in their curriculum. The majority of the students say that they don’t like the way how their teachers teach this target language. And the results from the interviews with the teachers showed that they don’t know the legal rules that guide their English Teaching Practice and the meaning of having a theoretical pedagogic way to guide them in the classroom. Besides, the results also showed me that the English Teaching Practice (the tradicional one) need to be changed towards a Reflective Teaching Practice for helping the teacher to think what he had been doing at the classroom and change his pedagogic way to the student’s necessities, if it’s necessary, in any time.