O lúdico e o afeto no ensino-aprendizagem de língua inglesa com crianças de 3 anos de idade

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the presence of ludic and affection in English-language teaching-learning with three years old children, in a kindergarten school, located in the city of Pato Branco/PR. The study is based on the postulates of the Sociocultural Theory proposed by Vigotski (2007), commented and discussed by Oliveira (2003), and constituted research-action modality (GREENWOOD; LEVIN, 2010).This way and attempting to follow the annual plan of the discipline English Language of the referred school, a project of study focused on the teaching of vocabulary about the parts of the human body was elaborated and applied by the researcher in four English classes to children with three years old of the class Maternal IV.. The classes were audio and video recorded and in sequence excerpts pertinent to the theme of the research were selected and transcribed for the study. The analyses were developed according to studies by Tonelli (2005), Rocha (2007) in relation to teaching-learning English Language for children; Moyles (2002), Cristovão and Gamero (2009), Vigotski (2010) and Figueira (2010), in relation the ludic and affection. The results achieved show that the ludic and affection happen together, providing much more than fun, in the other words, also favoring the children’s affective, social and cognitive development.