When attitudes and beliefs meet: a qualitative study with some Brazilian teachers of English

• Autor(a) principal: Anjos, Flavius Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Scheyerl, Denise Chaves de Menezes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Tabuleiro de Letras
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uneb.br/index.php/tabuleirodeletras/article/view/9378
• topic: Attitude; Belief; English language; Teacher.

This paper is about attitudes and beliefs. Considering attitude as an evaluative reaction and beliefs as a perception one might have on something or somebody, this paper has as objective, through the lens of both elements, to understand some teachers’ perception and reaction on the teaching/learning process of English as well as to reflect on the relationship between both. Therefore, this paper is based on a qualitative research, conducted with a group of Brazilian teachers of English. To generate the data, we used the teacher´s diaries. The data pointed, among other things, the existence of a strong relationship between attitude and belief, imbricated with the teachers’ practices. The relevance of this study lies in the possibility to shed light to the teaching/learning of English, in order to overcome barriers, materialized in attitudes and beliefs, which, many times, impede educational success.