Análise da compreensão escrita em língua inglesa no Caderno do professor

Abstract

This research aimed at evaluating how the communicative ability of reading comprehension in English is developed in Caderno do Professor (SÃO PAULO, 2009a, 2009b, 2009c, 2009d) for Sophomore Year at High School. Caderno do Professor is a teaching material used at public schools in São Paulo state and it was developed and published by Proposta Curricular (SÃO PAULO, 2008), guidelines proposed by the Eduction Department of São Paulo state government. The theoretical bases for this study were the Brazilian official documents for the teaching of English Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais: introdução aos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, (BRASIL, 1997), Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais de Língua Estrangeira (BRASIL, 1998), Parâmetros Curriculares para o Ensino Médio (BRASIL, 1999), Parâmetros Curriculares+ Ensino Médio (BRASIL, 2002), Orientações Curriculares (BRASIL, 2004 e 2006) which aim at guiding the pedagogical practice, the teaching as well as the curriculum of Brazilian schools and Proposta Curricular of São Paulo State (SÃO PAULO, 2008), guidelines proposed for organizing and referencing the educational system of São Paulo state. For reading conceptions this study followed Smith (1999), Kleiman (2004, 2008, 2010), and Koch and Elias (2011). For material evaluation and development this research based on Cunningsworth (1995), Hutchinson and Waters (1987), Tomlinson (2001), Coracini (2009) and Ramos (2009) and for evaluation criteria for materials Ramos (2009) was used as well as the checklist of Dias (2009). The research is classified as qualitative under documental analysis and was developed from the selection and analysis of comprehension reading activities within the four volumes of Caderno do Professor (SÃO PAULO, 2009a, 2009b, 200c, 2009d) for students at Sophomore year at High School aiming at answering the questions that guided this study: How reading comprehension in English is developed in Caderno do Professor? i How reading comprehension reflects the official documents? ii How reading comprehension is developed in the activities? . Analysis result showed that the reading comprehension activities involve a socio-interactionist view of teaching-learning which is stated in the official documents as well as at Proposta Curricular. However, concerning reading comprehension related to genres the results showed that this is not really fulfilled and lacks a meaningful and real development of genres