Desafios e possibilidades do ensino da língua inglesa para surdos
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2014-09-29
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The present study aims to observe and describe the system of cultural meanings of the
English Language teaching and learning process, as well as its challenges and possibilities for
deaf students. This qualitative research is an ethnographic based study, which studies a second
year high school students inserted in a Youth and Adult Education (YAE). This group of
students studies in a public school that has a special education for deaf people and it is also an
inclusive school. At first, this school worked only as a special school for deaf students.
Nowadays, due to the policy of inclusion, besides deaf students, this school also admits
students who are listeners. The participants of this research were compound by eleven
students (6 deaf students and 5 listeners), the English Teacher of this group and the Brazilian
Sign Language Interpreter, who is also the participant-researcher of this study. This study
lasted a whole school semester and the observations were made through audiovisual
recordings of classes and interviews, field notes, and gathered documents. Regarding the
presented cultural context, there was an attempt to understand the teaching practices of the
English Language teaching for deaf students, the English Teacher’s conceptions of Foreign
Language teaching, the cultural aspects of each language used in this process (Brazilian Sign
Language, English and Portuguese), the influence of the inclusive process in that context and
the interaction between the individuals studied. In the analysis, it was used the concept of
cultural domains from ethnography (SPRADLEY, 1980). Conceptions about Deaf People
Education and public policy of inclusion were discussed in the analysis. The analyzed data
show that the researched school makes an effort to adapt itself according to the reality
presented by the inclusive education. Another important fact observed during the English
classes is that there is a lack of interaction between deaf students and listener students, mainly
because of their linguistic inability to communicate and interact with one another. It was
noticeable that the activity of copying was used more frequently than any other activity as a
way of learning the English Language. Data suggest that many problems and challenges faced
in the teaching of the target language for deaf students has its roots in the Brazilian
educational system, which does not yet offer an ideal and high quality education for both
teachers and student.
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CARVALHO, R. A. M. Desafios e possibilidades do ensino da língua inglesa para surdos. 2014. 131 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2014.