A inserção da cultura como fator motivador nas aulas de língua inglesa: uma análise comparativa entre duas pesquisas desenvolvidas em escolas brasileiras

Abstract

Culture consists to many elements which constitutes a society, such as behaviours, principles, values, habits, language variations, etc. Maintaining a detailed knowledge on target language culture is an important key for an effective English learning process as a foreign language, besides it provides a significant learning, motivating the learners to develop interests about the language. Regarding data collection procedures, this is a bibliographic research which is based on two doctoral theses and it aimed to compare them in order to understand the relevance of cultural elements as a motivational factor on the English teaching-learning process. Taking into account the importance of culture and motivation are very important in this process, this study is supported by KRAMSCH (2004), PAZ (2012) e SARMENTO (2001) among other theorists. The results indicate that an approach based on cultural aspects attracts students´ curiosity, making them more participative, and this provides more interaction between teacher and student, resulting in an active and practical learning environment through contextualization of reality.