Atividade social nas aulas de inglês: propostas e desdobramentos

Abstract

The aim of this work is to verify how Social Activity helps English learning and promotes real situations of language use. This study was based on the English Language Curriculum Guidelines of the 6th Year of Primary Education an official document of the Municipal Department of Education of São Paulo. This research is based on the Socio - Historical - Cultural Development (Vygostky/1998), as well as the studies on Social Activity proposed by Liberali (2009) that analyses the interaction between students and teacher in real situations of use of the language. It also uses concepts from the Theory of Activity of Engeström (1999) that seeks to understand human activities under socially situated phenomen and developed from the concepts of mediation proposed by Vygostky. It is a social research, since there is evaluation, reflection and reconstruction of the pratice itself, whose objective is to rethink the Curricular Guidelines of the 6th year so that Social Activity promotes the acquisition of the new knowledge and potentiates the real situations of use of English in class. The study was conducted during the second semester of 2016 and the instruments of data collection are composed of: warm up of data, questionnaire about the content studied and evaluation of the Social Activity carried out. The results showed that the participants used the English Language in class with contextual and significant activities in the learning-process