O ensino da escrita em língua inglesa: perspectivas e dificuldades

Abstract

The present work brings as thematic the production of writing in the teaching of English language in the particular educational context of elementary education. Centralizing in the written modality of the language that, in most cases, is taught the vocabulary and grammar in an isolated and decontextualized way of the reality of the students. This research has as its general objective to analyze the difficulties of writing in English, during the teaching-learning process of elementary school students. With the specific objectives of: Reflecting on the teaching of English language; identify similarities and divergences in two studies addressing the writing in English in the educative practice. The study brings as theorists Brown (2001), Jack Richards (2015), Oliveira, (2015), Antunes (2015), among others. Based on this study, a bibliographic research was carried out through two academic theses regarding the teaching of writing in English in the educative practice and the difficulties of textual production of the students. Through the study it was found that the methods and strategies used by teachers for the teaching of English language have not developed a good writing. This is confirmed because the traditional approaches to teaching writing are still very present, which privilege the formal aspects based on grammars structures, vocabularies and comprehension of texts.