Um estudo sobre algumas representações da língua inglesa nos cursos de extensão da UFCG.

Abstract

This dissertation is designed on the basis of our experience in the classroom in which the unwillingness of the students of foreign languages in learning the English language was realized, even the teacher showing the influence of English throughout the contemporary world. We found in the searches for this work others of this theme that only base on the opinion of teachers, we decided to explore the issue from the perspective of the students. In order to contribute to some forms of representation of the English language in the extension courses at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, with some opinions of other students of foreign languages on the English language and exploring some possible causes that contribute to some o f these reviews. We applied a questionnaire to 20 students o f foreign languages of the extension courses at UFCG and through these questionnaires four types of answers for analysis were organized, each set of responses was analyzed in its issues of linguistic, discursive and social representations observed in these responses, finding in the theoretical concepts of social representation to assist this analysis, of authors as Jovchelovitch (1994) and Sa (1993). Finally, one reaches the conclusion that some students have negative social representations about the English language by creating a barrier to their learning and our possible contribution as teachers to reverse this situation.