Estratégias de leitura em sala de aula de língua estrangeira – Inglês.

Abstract

The present study aims at describing the activity performed in an English language course, with an evening 8th grade group at Escola Municipal Dr. Brum Azeredo, in Pelotas-RS, as well as evaluation the results obtained by this proposal. The scope of the intervention was that of making the teaching of English more pleasurable and significant, so that through the applying of reading strategies one could increase the student’s reading skills, thus motivating both their critical sense and their reflexive thought upon the interaction with the written text. The evaluation of the developed activities shows that there were significant behavioral changes among the students, mainly those which concern their view on the foreign language (FL) learning, thus showing the scope of this kind of activity. The theoretical support for such research was based on theories of linguists who deal with reading and its procedure under the psycholinguistics point of view – Smith and Goodman; theories on learning – Vygotsky; language as an interactive activity – Bakhtin, and the importance of the reading skill for the (FL) learning – Moita Lopes.