A deficiência da proficiência oral de professores de língua inglesa não nativos na perspectiva de alunos que participam de grupos no facebook e whatsapp

Abstract

The definition of accent and pronunciation and their main differences, along with the factors that rule the acquisition of a second language are the basis for the discussion proposed in this undergraduate thesis, which are the non-native English teachers oral proficiency deficits through the English students perspective who participate in Facebook and WhatsApp groups. This research’s goal was to find out if the phonetics and phonology knowledge has any influence on the students perception of their non-native English teachers oral skills, that is, if being knowledgeable on good pronunciation could change their minds in regards to these professionals reliability. The authors whose works were of the most importance, providing the theoretical information to support this one, were: Lenneberg(1967), Krashen (1982), Krashen (2002), Timmim (2015), Garcia (1997), Darcí (2011), Hardman (2010) and Frumkin (2007)..The chosen type of research was the exploratory and explanatory one. We also opted for the hyphotherico-deductive model as the research method and the quantitative approach was used as the means for data analysis. After the data analyses, we did not confirm the hypothesis that phonetics of phonology knowledge is likely to facilitate the achievement of an acceptable English level