Crenças dos professores acerca da Abordagem Comunicativa (AC).

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the most recurrent English teachers' beliefs in a language school located in Campina Grande, regarding the Communicative Approach and considering the teaching learning process of English, by relating these beliefs to the teachers' techniques and strategies of teaching. The Communicative Approach has been the object of study of a variety of academic projects since it has come up as an approach. By being an approach and not a method, unlike the forms of teaching that preceded it, the Communicative Approach has a number of principles which need to be recognized so that it can be used properly. This research is classified as descriptive because it was performed through a questionnaire applied to the teachers that was created to verify the most relevant teachers' beliefs who took part as volunteers about the AC. In order to enable a better understanding of what the Communicative Approach is, this work presents the theoretical assumptions and the main features of this approach, along with a brief description about beliefs in the context of Applied Linguistics. While doing this research, it was possible to notice that the beliefs related to the Communicative Approach, as well as the techniques and teaching strategies adopted by professors involved in this work to a great extent are in tune with the theoretical assumptions of this approach.