A música em inglês no enem: uma analise das músicas em lingua inglesa nas provas do ENEM

Abstract

This research has as its theme the culture presented in the English language songs present in the ENEM exams from 2010 to 2016. In this sense, the research aims to answer the following guiding question: What cultural aspects are found in ENEM English songs between the years 2010 to 2016? In order to answer the following question, was elaborated the general objective: To investigate cultural aspects found in ENEM English songs between the years 2010 to 2016. In order to achieve this objective, the following specific objectives were elaborated: to know the temporal cut of the culture of each country that compose the research; to understand the inclusion of songs in English in the ENEM exams; to find in the songs, cultural aspects of the countries studied at work. To achieve these objectives, a qualitative bibliographical research was carried out, based on the following authors: Murphey (1990), VanSpanckeren (1994), Vian Junior (2008), Zimmermann (1996) and others. The analyzes reached the proposed objectives, once the historical events about the countries studied were presented, as well as the motivation described in the PCN’s about the insertion of the songs in the ENEM exams that aims at the entry of the students of the secondary education in higher education, and also the verification of the cultural aspects found in the songs; in this way, cultural aspects were, rather, found in the ENEM exams, such as: the romantic vision of Delacroix on the French Revolution; or the speech of the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie; or the criticism of the Bob Dylan wars in the Cold War period; and finally the issue of racism discussed by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.