O ensino de língua adicional a partir de comunidades de prática: uma experiência docente de unidade didática para o curso normal

Abstract

The present work arose from the desire of seeking for new perspectives of practice that could glimpse other forms of teaching / learning of the additional language / English. In this aspect, the main objective of the research was to develop and implement a didactic unit for the teaching of the additional language / English in the first year of the Normal Course from the formation of a Community of Practice. For the application of the project, it was used an action research practice for the implementation of a didactic unit with a group of the first year of the normal course in a state public school, in Santana do Livramento / RS, from April to August 2018. During the intervetion, it was analyzed how the work developed in the implementation of the didactic unit, from Communities of Practice, constituted of 8 modules, addressing Teaching Based on Tasks and using digital tools, contributed for teaching an additional language. In order to base this study, the work was supported in the theory on Communities of Practice (LAVE ; WENGER, 2007) and by Morrison (1931), to discuss the didactic unit. Since the didactic unit was made up of eight modules and within each module there were several activities to be developed, we discoursed about Teaching Based Tasks by Ellis (2003) and on Digital Literacy (MORAN, 2004; BUZATO, 2006; LEFFA, 2006), when we approach the digital tools. From the product elaborated for this action research, a didactic unit, and the activities developed in each module, we performed the analysis of the data generated through the questionnaires, rubrica and field notes in order to verify if the initials objectives were reached. The result of the qualitative analysis and the observation of the data showed that the elaboration of the didactic unit, based on the students’ engagement in the formation of Communities of Practice, significantly assists the students in the execution of the tasks. Although the learning of the additional language under study has focused on learning vocabulary and some performances on the part of some students, group interaction and curiosity for the beyond the classroom has been sown.