Produção de narrativa ficcional por alunos de um curso de inglês

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Beatriz Magalhães Aranha
• Orientador(a): Magalhães, Maria Cecilia Camargo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem
• Departamento: Lingüística
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Produção escrita do gênero narrativa de ficção; Aprendizagem de inglês; Teoria da atividade sócio-histórico-cultural
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Written production of the narrative genre in English; Teaching-learning process in English language; CHAT
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13761

This research was motivated by my perception of the difficulties that students from a language school face when it comes to writing the narrative genre, specifically telling short stories (which is mandatory in some international exams). Those are important questions, as we know that the responsibility for putting the learning process into a straitjacket is the fact that the focus is on the final result, instead of being on the process. That makes the educational process fixed and non-creative, resulting on the development of students that are not reflexives nor aware of the social activities they engage into. Vygotsky and Engerstöm discussions about the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) are the basis for this study, as well as the concepts of teaching-learning development, mediation in social contexts and critical collaboration in which language plays a fundamental role as a cultural artifact. In general, this research aimed to critically comprehend the contexts created on the classroom of a language school for the production of fictional narratives in English language. The specific targets were: 1) critically understand the comprehension of the students about the contemplated genre; 2) provide conditions for the students so they could appropriate the fictional narrative genre through social activities; 3) analyze the written production of students to critically verify if there was any transformation, and what they were. Eight pre-intermediate students, between the ages of 11 and 13 years old, from a school in São Paulo city took part in the research. Their production, audio recordings and classes description generate the data used in the analysis. They aimed to check how students were gripping to the learning of the genre, and also the relations established in the classroom. The results demonstrated that the pattern of language used was unidirectional and the relationships were mostly I-R-E (initiated by the teacher, responded by the students, and evaluated by the teacher). Nevertheless, at the end of the research, the pattern changes a bit for a more collaborative relationship among the students and the teacher, which made it possible for students to better understand the concepts of the narrative worked during the semester. Mostly, it served well for this teacher-researcher who, for the first time, evaluated her actions in the classroom