Análise de material didático de língua inglesa: abordagens e métodos

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the English textbook “Way to English”, from the collection “Way to English for Brazilian Learners”, Ática publisher, aimed for the 6th year of Elementary School, published in 2018. The Programa Nacional do Livro Didático distributed it for the 2020-2023 cycle. Through an analytical descriptive and bibliographical research, we sought to verify whether the work contemplates the aspects defended in the regulatory documents of education such as the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) (BRASIL, 2018) and which teaching and learning Methods and Approaches of English are present in the collection. The research is justified because English textbooks are a way of accessing a foreign language and culture, in some contexts the only opportunity available to students and, because of this, they must be produced and selected carefully. To perform the textbook analysis, we used the concepts of the BNCC (BRASIL, 2018) and the ideas of Leffa (2016) about the English teaching and learning and some Methods and Approaches, such as: Grammar and Translation Method, Direct Method, Audiolingual Method and Communicative Approach. From the analysis, it was observed that the textbook mixes different approaches and methods of English teaching and learning, and also contemplates aspects such as interculturality, digital literacy and the conception of English as a “lingua franca” defended in the regulatory documents of education. However, we found that the book lacks activities that emphasize interaction, that is, activities that are in line with the Communicative Approach, and focuses too much on writing and reading skills, while orality in English is little explored.