O diferencial de aprendizagem da língua inglesa em uma escola bilíngue de Teresina

Abstract

Everyone knows the importance of English nowadays. Currently in the labor market competitiveness is increasingly fierce and this has made increasing the number of bilingual schools across the country. For this reason, it‟s important to understand better how the learning process happens in those schools and how they are different from the others. The main objective of this work was to analyse and report, in a clear and objective way, the real students‟ situation from bilingual schools about their capacity for effective communication in English, as well as the existence, or not, of a good differential in their methodology. To support this research, we used the ideas of authors like Grosjean (1982), Krashen (1985) and Megale (2005). As a methodology, we used a quantitative and qualitative methodological approach which encompasses a review of the literature followed by a field research. At the end of the tests and after the analysis of the results, it can be concluded that students from a bilingual school have a good level of English, but not in a fluent way, and that only a few students have skills enough for a good communication in English.