Metodologia de pesquisa das crenças sobre aprendizagem de línguas: estado da arte

• Autor(a) principal: Barcelos, Ana Maria Ferreira
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/rbla/article/view/583

Language learning beliefs have been a topic in Applied Linguistícs for 15 years now. Beliefs are considered as one of the individual learning differences that may influence the leaming/acquisition process. Many studies have been published about language learning beliefs but few of them have examined the methodology of investigating beliefs. This paper is a state-of-art review of current research methodology on students' language learning beliefs. The author groups studies on language learning beliefs into three approaches according to their deíinitíon of beliefs, methodology, and the relationship between beliefs and actions. The main advantages and disadvantages of each approach are discussed and questions for the future research on students' language learning beliefs are offered at the end.