Crenças do professor e alunos sobre estratégias de aprendizagem em uma sala de aula de inglês como língua estrangeira

Abstract

The main objective of this investigation is to reflect upon how the teacher s and learners beliefs give meaning to teaching and learning process and how they interact with the choice of language learning strategies as well as attempts to find out how these beliefs affect their approach to language development. Having Bakhtin s language and ideologies concepts as a starting point, this investigation is grounded on studies developed in Discourse Analysis and Applied Linguistics. Data was collected at Casa de Cultura Britânica, the extension English school that belongs to Languages Faculty of Federal University of Alagoas. Datagathering procedures were conducted under the guise of ethnographical methodology and Discourse Theory. In order to pursue the beliefs that permeate EFL teaching and learning process, lesson observation is carried out once the classroom is the stage where discourses emerge. Discourses, in turn, give voice to the ideologies on which beliefs are founded. The corpus is constituted of audio recordings and respective transcription, questionnaires, interviews, field notes, articles from magazines and newspapers obtained via internet.