The foreign language of today, yesterday and tomorrow taught in Basic Education

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Andréia da Cunha Malheiros
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Inforsato, Edson do Carmo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Entretextos
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/entretextos/article/view/9642
• topic: Teaching; Foreign Language; Historical Reasons; Ensino; Língua Estrangeira; Razões Históricas

This study aims to bring a historical perspective for the teaching of a foreign language, and to show that the choice of one language or another has no pedagogical reasons, but political. It is the reflection on the deployment of foreign language teaching in Brazil, more specifically in the state of Sao Paulo, when it began, its reasons, its choices and coverage. It also emphasizes the importance of several methodological trends shown over the years, which impact they had, their characteristics and the influence they still exert in foreign language teaching. The theoretical background retakes the federal and state legislation on the teaching of a foreign language and some authors who thought about language like: Saussure (2006), Chomsky (1975), Vygotsky (1989) and Bakhtin (1988). From this reality, it intends to reinforce the importance of studying this discipline to form a critical citizen, conscious and respectful to the culture of others, realizing that more than the grammar of a language, it is important to understand the worldviews that determine it and to rethink the language as an important aspect of the culture of a people and something fundamental to their identity.