Interações em sala de aula : auxiliando crianças a aprender uma segunda língua

Abstract

This study was developed from the sociocultural theory of Vygostsky, directed in this research for studies of second language and foreign language, with the support of authors such as Lantolf (2006), Donato (2006), Swain (2001, 2011) and Storch (2002) , which state that learning occurs through interaction in a given social context. The objective of this study was to observe the learning that took place in the interactions in the classroom of English language teaching, when using the Learning Fun method, and to analyze how the activities developed in the educational environment by the teacher favored learning of second language. This research had as participants a teacher and seven apprentices, aged 4 to 6 years, and occurred in the period of November 2015 to July 2016. In addition, this was complemented by filling out a questionnaire with open and closed answers by the parents of these children. It is also worth mentioning that this researsh was carried out in a private school of Early Childhood Education in the city of Porto Alegre. The unsystematic observations were recorded by the researcher in a Field Dairy. Subsequently, these records were categorized with Bardin's Content Analysis Technique in three categories of a priori analysis: (i) student / peer review; (ii) teacher and post-teacher progress: (i) learning episodes. The data obtained from the questionnaire were important to characterize the group of students participating, as well as for the development of the pilot project. The data suggest that the assistance to the production and comprehension of the target language occurred through the provision of training, both by the teacher and the students, reinforcing the collaboration in the learning process. In addition, from the excerpts analyzed, it was shown that the way to develop the lessons and playful material of the Learning Fun method favor the acquisition of English as a second language.