Ensino e aprendizagem de escrita em língua inglesa: a relação entre crenças e o uso de estratégias

• Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Fabiano Silvestre
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4839
• topic: Crenças; Estratégias de escrita; Ensino e aprendizagem de língua inglesa; Resignificação de crenças; Beliefs; Writing strategies; Teaching and learning of English; Resignification; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

The postmodern society requires a differentiated profile of learner from that of decades ago, when education was centered on the teacher. A more autonomous attitude, in which the learner becomes agent of his/her own learning process is required. This attitude can be linked not only to learners‟ beliefs about how a language is taught and learnt but also to their use of language learning strategies. Beliefs are defined, according to Barcelos (2006), as a way of thinking, constructions of reality, or ways of seeing and perceiving the world and its phenomena, which are co-constructed from our experiences and results from an interactive process of interpretation and (re)signification. Language learning strategies (LLS) are understood as specific actions taken consciously by the learner in order to assist him/her in the process of language learning (OXFORD, 2002). This study aimed at investigating the relationship between beliefs about language teaching and learning and the use of strategies in the context of an extension course in English, as well as at detecting whether there were changes in beliefs and in the use of writing strategies after some training on writing strategies. To achieve these goals, I tried to answer the following research questions: (a) What are the beliefs of university students on teaching and learning of writing in a foreign language? (b) What writing learning strategies do they use? (c) Is there any sort of influence of beliefs in the use of strategies or vice versa? If so, what is the nature of this relationship? (d) After an awareness training on LLS on writing, were there any changes in the beliefs of informants about the process of writing in EFL and in the use of strategies? Where there any improvement in the quality of textual productions of learners? The following data collection instruments were used: Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) (OXFORD, 1990), writing strategies questionnaire (PETRIC and CZARL, 2003), inventory of Beliefs about teaching and learning of writing in L2 (LUZ, 2006) narratives, focus group. The results showed that the participants hold limiting beliefs about writing, understood by them as a practice of grammatical knowledge. This belief influences, in a direct way, the selection of LLS. Among the most cited is the use of the dictionary, either during the process of writing, as well as in the review process. It was also found that, after the intervention process, there was some reframing of beliefs about the role of writing and teaching of this skill in public schools. However, more rooted beliefs, such as the relationship between writing and grammar were not resignified. An improvement in the quality of textual productions of the participants in terms of genre 3configuration and use of grammar was perceived.