Literatura e ensino de língua inglesa: adaptação de fábulas para histórias em quadrinhos

Abstract

This work aims, firstly, to expose the results of a participatory action research with a qualitative approach. It focused mainly on the development of an educational product that contemplated the teaching of the English language (EL) through literature in public schools and the use of digital technologies, having as trigger the literary discursive genres fable and the comics, as well as the adaptation between these genres. The guiding question for its creation focused on the need for didactic materials aimed at teaching the EL, especially in the final years of public high school, which contemplated literary texts as facilitators of the teaching and learning process of the EL, and that they were developed by participants of that context, since in many places where the teacher works, the only teaching material available is the textbook offered by the government, often in insufficient quantities for the classes. From the elaboration of the educational product 'LiteraFun – Learning English through Literature', a didactic material that sought to fill the niche of English language teaching in public schools through literature, there was an analysis of it together with a group of ten teachers from the state public schools of Paraná. In the didactic materials evaluation meetings, its applicability in the public context was verified, as well as the complexity of the proposed activities and their points of attention, and the visual and technological resources suggested. The results revealed positive data regarding its main objectives, but some suggestions for product modifications were indicated so that the objectives were fully achieved. Based on the analysis meetings, it was possible to make some considerations about the contributions pointed out by the participants, as well as the discussions held. Through the appreciation meetings, it was possible to perceive some points of attention of the product, such as, for example, the lack of activities that aim to develop speech and listening comprehension, the time spent to carry out the proposed activities and the fun aspect that is present of the product title, but which was not as developed throughout the product. This work also aims to present a bibliographical research, carried out in the critical fortune about the teaching of English through literature in public schools. The theme was dealt bearing in mind assumptions directed to language teaching, to discursive and literary genres, to new information technologies in education. Authors like BAKHTIN, (2003); COELHO (2000); CORCHS (2009); DUFF e MALEY (2003); HUTCHEON (2011); KEARSLY (2011); LAZAR (2004); OLIVEIRA e LAGO (2020); PAIVA (2005); TORRES (2012); ZAKARNEH e MAHMOUD (2021) were basis for the development of the first chapters that sought to present and discuss the historical panorama on the EL teaching in Brazil, the foreign languages teaching methods used over the years, the EL teaching in public schools and its main obstacles, the English language teaching through literature and teaching materials intended for it and digital tools in foreign language teaching. The last chapter of this work presents the educational product, the analyzes developed through the data collected in the analysis meetings with the teachers and the author's perceptions about the product and its application by public school teachers