A lição de casa como extensão da sala de aula de lingua estrangeira (ingles)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

RESUMO

This qualitative ethnographic research described the way teachers and students deal with the practice of assigning, doing and checking homework (Hw) in three different Paulistana secondary school foreign language learning contexts. The research was carried out based on the concepts of teaching approach, of input under the cognitive-interacionist view and of leaming culture. It revealed that in the first two contexts where teachers influenced by a structuralist approach assigned Hw without taking into consideration the quantity, the relevance and the degree of pleasure and creativity of the activities, and explored the classroom and its extension to systematize pattems or structural points (learning), students regarded the practice of doing Hw as being boring, imposing, pointless, mark-minded and punishing experiences. In the context # 3, on the other hand, the practice of doing Hw appeared to be more positive and the subject students were interpreted to have a more criticallearning consciousness, much more so than the students from the two other contexts. The teacher guided by a communicatively proned approach provided them with the opportunity of working the targetlanguage not only within activities focused on form, but also and mainly to express their ideas, therefore focused on meaning, intensifying learning in classroom and directing the focus towards the use ofthe target-Ianguage (acquisition). This was accomplished by exploring the moments of Hw correction to continuously evalutate both the sludents and her own teaching approach and to, implicitly encourage leaming strategies, leaving to the Hw assignment the part of systematization and routinization. The positive feedback from students in case 3 seemed to be due to the fact that they saw all the extra work they had done at home as a purposeful task, leading them gradually towards a communicative competence, a feeling the others were not able to experience, becalise their classrooms were devoid of meaningful interactions. The study emphasized that the contrast in terms of teachers approaches broadened or limited the number and the type of Hw functions explored either in or outside classroom, resulting in a noticeable advantage for the teacher in the third context over the other two

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lingua inglesa - estudo e ensino trabalhos escolares

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