O ensino da língua inglesa em escolas públicas: quais os entraves na inserção desse idioma como língua franca?

Abstract

The study of the English Language has been extremely important, especially regarding the insertion of the individual in the technological and cultural world in which we live, and it can be said that English currently has the status of lingua franca. The teaching of the English language in Brazilian public schools was and continues to be ineffective, thus reinforcing the belief that it is impossible to learn English in regular schools. Through bibliographic research, this work proposed to identify the difficulties present in the teaching of the English language in public schools, demonstrating what is in line with what the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) preaches and how it generates direct impacts on the teaching-learning process. To this end, the research dialogues with documents such as the BNCC (BRASIL, 2017) and the National Curriculum Parameters (BRASIL, 1998), analyzing how public education policies are applied in the school context. In addition, it presents the concepts of Leffa (2003), which show the importance of teaching IL. Regarding the difficulties present in the teaching of IL in Brazilian public schools, the work brings, in addition to other authors, the conceptions of Perin (2005). For the work to be carried out, the technique of bibliographic research was used, developing from materials already prepared, such as books and scientific articles, allowing a theoretical deepening on the topics addressed, as well as a critical and reasoned analysis of the data. The bibliography analyzed showed that the greatest difficulties in advancing the teaching of IL in Brazilian public schools lie in the physical, social and material structures in which schools are located, as well as in the fact that the text of the BNCC does not discuss the training of IL teachers in Brazil, which ends up generating merely “technical” teaching, without adequately preparing students for a critical education, despite this being proposed by the document itself.