O ensino de língua inglesa na educação básica: um comparativo entre as perspectivas dos alunos da escola pública e privada

Abstract

Globalization and easy access to new technologies, the teaching of English has become a great ally so that communication happens faster and more efficiently. At that, the present study aims to investigate elementary school students’ perspectives 8th and 9th grade about English language teaching comparing the perspectives of public and private school students. For this, we chose two schools in Coronel Vivida/ PR, a public school and a private school. In this work, the qualitative-interpretative perspective was used as a methodology, focusing on the case study (LESSARD-HÉBERT et al, 2012; MARCONI; LAKATOS, 2003; and YIN, 2001), which investigated the perceptions of the students mentioned above. The theoretical discussion focused on the relation of concepts such as the dialogical perspective of language (BAKHTIN, 2003; BAKHTIN / VOLOSHINOV, 2004), language as a discourse and social practice (JORDÃO, 2006), and the different views on ideology and the English language teaching (CHAUI, 2008; CRYSTAL, 2003; DAGIOS, 2017; GIMENEZ et al, 2011; JORDÃO, 2006; PASSONI, 2018). From the analysis, it was noticed that the ideologies of the students do not change in a relatively great way, besides, when we think about English and the globalization, we could observe that in the public school as much in the private one, it is through means of communication and the Internet that these students have contact with English outside of school. This research also helps us reflect about the importance of English classes in basic education.