AvaliaÃÃo do ensino de LÃngua Inglesa: Um estudo na academia da ForÃa AÃrea / Evaluation of Teaching English Language: A Study in Air Force Academy

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2011

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The need to learn a foreign language becomes increasingly present in both the day-to-day as in the world of work. The Training Course for Officers at Air Force Academy (AFA) in Pirassununga lasts four years and offers within its curriculum, English classes to the cadets. The field of oral mode of language is of paramount importance in the lives of future military pilots, since it is used in talk radio (phraseology) inside the aircraft and missions abroad. The dominance of English in the operational area of aviation is a key issue in terms of security. Several aircraft accidents, either on the ground or in flight, that were caused by miscommunication or misunderstandings between pilots and control tower. This study investigated the extent to which English course offered the cadets of the AFA (Course of general education and specific training), allows the acquisition of fluency in English required for competent performance of cadet airman. To achieve this goal we performed the documental analysis of Curriculum of English Language and English Instrumental Assessment Plan of the Air Force Academy and assessment tools applied to a class of 188 cadets at the end of 2nd and 4th years, between 2004 and 2006, aiming to derive if the targets with regard to the fluency of English were affected. Characterized, as well as a qualitative research, and was adopted as a methodological procedure to document analysis of curriculum in English with a focus on oral mode of language based on the Plan of Teaching Units, the Plan Evaluation Force Academy Air and Reports Analysis and assessment of quality teaching of the language course as well as official documents of the Air Force Academy and Air Force Command. After analyzing the results, the research indicates that between 2004 and 2006 the emphasis of the English course was in developing the skills of reading and writing, listening and speaking relegating the real focus of the course according to the Teaching Units Plan, the background. Thus, we obtained that the general objectives of the discipline, that would be to interpret written texts and oral presentations, and use speech acts in English and writing at advanced level were not achieved at the level proposed, which may have caused an insufficient learning and which might have affected the field of oral language.

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avaliaÃÃo do ensino evaluation of teaching evaluation of learning english language curriculum foreign language educacao avaliaÃÃo da aprendizagem lÃngua estrangeira currÃculo de lÃngua inglesa

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