Abordagem comunicativa: aplicação de atividades de produção oral em aulas de língua inglesa.

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to describe how the oral production activities presented in a textbook, which follows the communicative approach, are applied by two teachers of an English private school, with beginner students. In order to investigate this general objective, the following three specific objectives are proposed: (1) to identify, out of the competences which entail the communicative competence, the ones which are most focused by the two teachers during the application of the oral production activities; (2) to verify if, and in what ways, the two teachers play the roles ascribed by the communicative approach; and (3) to investigate if their teaching experience with the communicative approach influences their practices, specifically the practices related to the application of the competences and to the role played by the teacher. In order to achieve the two first specific objectives, four oral production activities applied by the two teachers were audio recorded and analysed. To investigate if the two teachers’ teaching experience with the communicative approach influences their practices, a semi-structured interview was carried out. The results indicate that the grammatical competence is mostly focused, and that the two teachers play mainly the role of informant (Silveira, 1999). As to the influence of the two teachers’ teaching experience with the communicative approach, it was possible to perceive that such experience is likely to influence them in diverse ways