As linguagens artísticas no ensino de Inglês

Abstract

This graduation term paper aimed to comprehend how using Arts can contribute to teaching English Language Arts in a more significant way for elementary school students. The research started with the author´s interest in Arts, specifically in dance, mixed with the challenges of being an English teacher. The study is characterized as exploratory qualitative research and field research (as for its goals) and as a case study (as for its procedures), which came from a high bibliographic search, delimitated by themes (research for papers related to the object of study), linguistics (search for papers published in English and Portuguese), and main sources (books, magazines, paper work, etc). Finally, the field data collection happened at a bilingual education school in Sorocaba, between 2014 and 2015, followed by organization and analysis of the collected data. The study was divided into three chapters. The first presented several experiences where teachers integrated Arts while teaching other school subjects and the reflection about the integration of areas in educational practices, which justifies and legitimizes the research. For this reason, the same chapter conceptualizes the term interdisciplinary, providing the research with a deeper comprehension about the interdisciplinary teaching practices. The second chapter presented the methodology used to develop the paper, describing the set of processes used to write it. The third chapter described the data analysis gathered at the school, which involved activities implemented with five to ten year-old students and photographs of these activities.