O bilinguismo no Brasil: uma análise do material didático de escolas bilíngues de educação infantil e suas implicações na aquisição do idioma inglês como segunda língua

Abstract

Learning the English language has become more and more necessary, because English, as a lingua franca, is present in practically everything we consume today. With the increase of this need, bilingual child education schools saw a business opportunity that has been increasingly lucrative, and that follows a national trend. Based on this, the objective of this research was to analyze the didactic materials adopted by a few of these establishments with the intention of detecting whether these schools use a strictly bilingual methodology. To achieve this goal, a bibliographic research was carried out. To support this research, theories of some renowned linguists and educational theorists were approached in the area of first language acquisition, second language learning and bilingualism, such as Asher (2021), Clark (2009), Krashen (2009), Fiorin (2008), Harmers e Blanc (2000), and Piaget (1975). After conducting this study, it was possible to confirm that some schools do not follow the proper parameters with the bilingual methodology - which makes it difficult, the cases, the development of the process of learning English as a second language and, in particular, the acquisition of fluency