Como motivar os alunos do CEL - Centro de Estudo de Línguas - a ler textos em inglês?

Abstract

The goal of research is to discuss the role of the reading in teaching of foreign language, reflecting about the process that can to motivate the CEL’s students to read English texts. So, to achieve the purposed goal the researcher elaborated a proposal with the book Sugar and Candy by Elizabeth Laird, it talks about known themes that are common on the students’ life in the grade 1st. K at CEL, that is located in East District in São Paulo city. Authors like Hutchinson & Waters (1987), Leffa (1996, 1999, 2007) and Kleiman (2013) make the theoretical background of this research. The present study is characterised by “pesquisa-ação” and the teacher is the focal participant that in the classroom will play fundamental actions to motivate the students to read English texts and to make abstracts about them. The teacher worked with different strategies and the students did reading comprehension activities in pairs. The researcher teacher has used several data collection tools: class notes, questionnaires and students’ abstracts. The teacher analyzed the data and concluded that the research participants felt motivated to read Sugar and Candy. Therefore, we believe that the goals were achieved and the question was answered: How to motivate the CEL’s students to read English texts?