Representações da língua inglesa por alunos do ensino fundamental II

Abstract

This work aims to analyze essays carried out by Elementary School students from a public school in a municipality in the state of Alagoas, in order to find out their own representations about the English Language. The classes that I analyzed such essays were from the morning shift: 6th A and B; and the afternoon shift 6th C and 7th C. After reading the essays, I made the identification and analysis by representations, which were exposed by the students in their essays on the English Language. Among the representations, it was found that some students relate the use of this foreign language in their social context and others who do not see the importance of studying it. This research had as theoretical support the notion of representation by Durkheim (1898); Hall (1997); Minayo (1995); Cardoso (2000); Celani and Magalhães (2002); and Moscovici (2003). As well as Santos (2011), in which he did a work on the concepts of representation, citing other authors, such as Carlo Ginzburg (2001) and Nicola Abbagnamo (2007). I also count as a theoretical contribution to this research Branco (2005); Valério (2005); Fernandes (2006); Silva (2008); Pedrosa (2008); Cunha (2008); the work of Stella (2013) and Nascimento (2017). The analysis of the data showed that students who claimed not to use the English language felt unmotivated to learn and those that showed a motivation reported important reasons to learn that language, in addition to reporting daily moments when they use it.