Banca de DEFESA: SIMONE SANTANA FERRAZ

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STUDENT : SIMONE SANTANA FERRAZ
DATE: 04/07/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório 4 Instituto Ágora
TITLE:

 

THE PRESENCE OF ORALITY IN ENGLISH COURSEBOOKS: an analysis of the books Bridges and Way to English

KEY WORDS:

English language; oral ability - speaking; textbook; English language activities.

PAGES: 88
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Linguística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

This research proposes an analysis of two English textbooks (henceforth LD)
approved by the Brazilian Textbook program (PNLD) offered to Brazilian public
schools (hereafter EP): Bridges and Way to English. We used two books for the
sixth grade of elementary school, in which most public school's students have
their first contact with English in a school environment. The objective of this
research is to analyze and identify the proposals of activities that highlight the
speaking skill in the textbooks approved by PNLD. The methodology applied to
this research was qualitative to perform descriptive analysis. During the
analysis, we used Littlewood's diagram (2018) to understand the dynamics of
speaking in the LD and the obstacles to the effective communicative
competence in LI in a school environment. The theoretical support is based on
authors such as Littlewood (2018); Leffa (1999; 2016); Oliveira (2014); Dörnyei
(2011); Nunan (2003; 2009); Richards (2001); Tomlinson (2011); Paiva (2011),
among others. Among the reflections, we highlight the excessive presence of
the Portuguese language in several speaking sections in textbooks, oral
production activities with proposals for reflection and discussion in Portuguese,
and, in some cases, disconnected from the previous content addressed in
writing, reading, and comprehension activities, and tasks with mechanical
repetition exercises. Such results point to the difficulty of promoting
spontaneous and situational interactions based on speaking sections which
could boost the development of the students' communicative competence in a
school environment.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2194174 - ANA GRACA CANAN
Externa ao Programa - 1168633 - MARILIA VARELLA BEZERRA DE FARIA - UFRNExterna à Instituição - LIGIA DE SOUZA LEITE MORAES