O uso de contos em sala de língua inglesa: um estudo de leituras interculturais
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2016-06-24
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This paper is a qualitative research, more precisely, an etnographic case study which took place in
Centro de Línguas (CL) at Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) in an intermediate English class
(English 8) in the second semestre of the year 2015. The aim of this research is to understand the
learning of languages and cultures through the reading of literary texts in an English as a Second
Language class (ESL) at Centro de Línguas. For that, the students were taught short stories by
several English speaking authors through an intergrated approach to the teaching of Literature
(SAVVIDOU, 2004) following an intercultural approach. The selected texts were the short stories
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”, “The Story of an Hour”, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by American
female authors Flannery O’Connor, Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gillman, respectively, and
the Nigerian short stories “Dead Man’s Path” by Chinua Achebe and “A Private Experience” by
Chimamanda Adichie”. For the data analysis, some theoretical concepts by Iser’s (1978) Reading
Response Theory were used, as well as Agar’s (1995) concept of languaculture and Spradley’s
(1980) theory of cultural domains. The students had to answer questionnaires, to participate in nonstructured
group interviews and to be recorded during the whole last semester of the year 2014. In
terms of the results of this research, this paper showed the necessity of a critical intercultural
teaching, where the students can develop a critical view of their own culture as well as the culture
of the Other (KRAMSCH, 1998). Furthermore, the result of this study also suggested the possibility
of teaching canonic and non-canonic literary texts in a Foreign language classroom to discuss the
languages/cultures of the many peoples that express themselves through the means of the different
varieties of the English language.
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PEREIRA, D. N. O uso de contos em sala de língua inglesa: um estudo de leituras interculturais. 2016. 159 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.