O ensino da língua inglesa através dos multiletramentos: uma proposta para o engajamento de estudantes no ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present research originated from the need to think about practices that may give new meanings to the learning of the English Language as an additional language in Elementary School. This work has as its main objective to elaborate, to develop and to analyze a didactic unit in the curricular component English Language guided by the fundamentals of The Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (COPE; KALANTZIS, 2000; ROJO, 2009; ROJO; MOURA, 2012). Developed in an eighth grade class at a state school in São Gabriel-RS, in the year 2016, with the aim of, through the formation of a Community of Practice (WENGER; SNYDER 2000), to result in a greater engagement of the student in English learning, the research is also based on the concepts of Engagement and Additional Languages (SCHLATTER, GARCEZ, 2012, LEFFA, 2012). The methodological option of this work was by action research in applied linguistics, with the roles of teacher and researcher being assumed by the same author. As a teacher-researcher, I participated directly in the research process, building my object of study with those involved in the research. The developed didactic material will be available to professionals of the language area, contributing to the teaching-learning process of additional language. The analysis had a qualitative and interpretative bias and it was used microetnographic instruments. Microethnography was used to record, to visualize and to analyze the videos of the classes I taught during the project (ERICKSON, SHULTZ, 1998). The analysis of the data generated aimed to evaluate the extent to which the planned didactic unit effectively mobilized the concepts of the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, as well as to analyze how the students engage in the development of the project, establishing criteria for the evaluation of this engagement and interpret how the results obtained with the application of the didactic unit may be related (or not) to the formation of a Community of Practice in the English Language classroom. The result of the qualitative analysis and the discussion of the data showed that the didactic unit based on the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies led to the engagement of most the students most of the time to perform the tasks that would help them in the learning of the additional language. Likewise, the proposed tasks led to a production based on collaborative learning that both promotes engagement as this latter strengthens the Learning Community.