Beliefs: students’ thoughts concerning the portuguese language teaching

• Autor(a) principal: Silva-Poreli, Greize Alves da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Yida, Vanessa, Aguilera, Vanderci de Andrade
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Entretextos
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/entretextos/article/view/5490
• topic: Beliefs; Teaching; Portuguese language; Crenças; Ensino; Língua portuguesa

This work discusses the results of a research with students from public schools, concerning beliefs (positive or negative valuation) for Portuguese language teaching. Based on precepts of Wallace Lambert (1972), relating to psychology of language, it seeks to analyse beliefs and possible student attitudes regarding the Portuguese language teaching. For that, it was applied a questionnaire with eight questions to ten students (both sexes, aged 15 to 16 years) from the second year of secondary year in a traditional school in Londrina city center. The results originated five graphs which helped in the interviewees’ answers. It was concluded that: (i) the negative beliefs are more connected with the teacher; (ii) students cannot establish a relationship between the teaching of Portuguese language and its application in their professional lives, because of the distance of the teaching methods from their social reality; (iii) the female students have greater ease in use of language when answering the questionnaire than male students.